[354] Et te lapsorum miseret is said lightly, not, like Aeneas' words v. 353, gravely. Cerda comp. Il. 23. 548, εἰ δέ μιν οἰκτείρεις, καί τοι φίλος ἔπλετο θυμῷ. Nisus' humour is studied after Antilochus', as shown partly in the speech quoted from, partly in a later one, vv. 787 foll., where he jests at his own defeat by elder men. ‘Niso’ is probably to be constructed with ‘dabis’ rather than with ‘digna:’ comp. 1. 603 foll., 9. 252.
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