[857] Vix followed by ‘et’ 2. 692 note. Burm. erroneously took ‘cum’ in v. 858 as ‘quum,’ which would involve the awkwardness of referring ‘superincumbens’ to ‘quies,’ not to speak of other objections. ‘Primos’ has really the force of ‘primum,’ as in 1. 723., 3. 69: but it is also meant to be taken of those limbs, or that part of them, which were first affected by sleep. We should say ‘sleep had scarcely begun to relax his limbs,’ looking at the process as separable into parts, though the effect of each part would extend equally to the whole body: Virg. chooses to suppose one part of the body affected before another
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