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[212] Virgil's imitation ‘forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit’ ( Aen.1. 203) is slightly different in meaning, as Ameis notices: Homer understands by τῶνδε the dangers that threaten; Virgil, by ‘haec,’ the sufferings they are already enduring. Cp. Eurip. ap. Macrob. Sat. 7. 2ὡς ἡδύ τοι σωθέντα μεμνῆσθαι πόνων”. See also Od.15. 398-400.

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