[709] This and the next line have been cited on v. 22 above as parallel. If there is any special significance in ‘trahunt retrahuntque,’ it would seem to be ‘Whether the fates draw us towards Italy, as they have hitherto done, or apparently repel us from it, as by this late visitation, let us follow them in either case—in the one by prosecuting our voyage, in the other by leaving behind us those who have shown themselves unfit for the enterprise, or whose means of transport have been destroyed.’
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