[20] For ‘insultent’ a few MSS. (none of Ribbeck's) read ‘insultant:’ but such a construction could not be supported by such passages as E. 4. 52 (note). The words ‘feratur . . . tumidusque’ are inserted in Med. by a later hand, the sentence being originally written ‘Turnusque secundo,’ &c. Ribbeck accordingly puts them in brackets. remarking that Turnus in Book 9 has fought on foot, not on horseback back or from a chariot. But Turnus had appeared on horseback in his first attack on the camp, 9. 49 (comp. 9. 269, which shows that his appearance had made an impression on the Trojans), so that a more scrupulous narrator than Venus might have used the expression before us. The pl. ‘equis,’ however, would suggest a chariot, such as Turnus has later, v. 440 below, 12. 326, &c. But in any case Virg.'s want of memory or Venus' habit of exaggeration would account sufficiently for the words. The eye of a transcriber would easily pass from ‘Turnusque’ to ‘tumidusque.’ ‘Feratur per medios:’ so 12.477, “medios Iuturna per hostis Fertur equis.”
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