[366] Cautibus probably with ‘horrens.’ Virg. makes Dido indulge in those geographical recollections of which he is himself so fond. With the general sense comp. E. 8. 33 foll., a passage which supports those who would regard ‘cautibus’ here as a local abl. Virg. may have been thinking of Ariadne's reproaches to Theseus, Catull. 62. (64). 154. foll. (comp. Id. 58 (60).) The meaning apparently is that a rock was his mother and a tigress his nurse. Comp. the Ovidian Dido, vv. 37, 38.
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