[575] Ora Galaesi as connected with ‘reportant’ is a periphrasis for ‘Galaesum’ (comp. 4. 511, G. 4. 12): in itself however it is not a mere periphrasis, but fixes attention on the face, as the part in which the ghastliness and disfigurement of his violent death were most visible: comp. 2. 286 (of the mangled apparition of Hector), “quae caussa indigna serenos Foedavit voltus?” The construction thus brings out the double sense of ‘foedare,’ which is both to wound and to disfigure.
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