[22] In Med. ‘clausa’ is altered from ‘claustra,’ which Wakef. adopted and combined with a reading of the Jesus MS. ‘;non moenia,’ thus producing ‘non claustra tegunt, non moenia Teucros:’ “non male,” says Ribbeck. But ‘clausa’ is really emphatic; ‘closed though they be.’ Venus conveniently ignores the fact that the opening of the gates was the thing which had proved fatal to the Trojans. “Clauso fidere vallo” Lucan 6. 12.
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