[885] “Oriturque miserrima caedes” 2. 411, where, as here, it is the slaughter of countrymen by countrymen. With the structure of these lines comp. 12. 410, “It tristis ad aethera clamor Bellantum iuvenum et duro sub Marte cadentum.”
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