[851, 852] Virg. may perhaps be thinking of Il. 16. 385, Ὅτε λαβρότατον χέει ὕδωρ Ζεύς, ὅτε δή ῤ̔ ἄνδρεσσι κοτεσσάμενος χαλεπήνῃ, Οἳ βίῃ εἰν ἀγορῇ σκολιὰς κρίνωσι θέμιστας (‘meritas urbes’). For the functions of the Furies in the matter comp. G. 3. 551 (of the plague), “Saevit, et in lucem Stygiis emissa tenebris Pallida Tisiphone morbos agit ante metumque.” The Eumenides (Aesch. Eum. 938 foll.) say that they will avert plague, sword, and famine: implying that they could send them if they would. ‘Molitur,’ hurls, as G. 1. 329, “fulmina molitur.” For ‘aut’ Gud. has ‘ac:’ for ‘urbes,’ ‘orbes’ Pal. originally.
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