[520] Forb., improving upon Wagn., seems to have set this passage in its true light. ‘Vix ea fatus erat,’ as he remarks, naturally introduces some unforeseen event (comp. 1. 586., 2. 692., 3. 90), so that its real reference here must be to the portent mentioned v. 523: Virg. however probably thought that the effect of the interposition would be greater if it came when Aeneas was despondent, and so throws in the intervening lines, which leads him to change the construction. ‘Ora tenebant’ 2. 1 note.
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