[789] Pater: see on G. 2. 4. ‘Dedecus’ is Camilla herself: comp. “exstinxisse nefas” 2. 585, a passage generally similar. It would be possible however to understand the words to mean ‘grant that this disgrace may be wiped off from our arms.’
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