[188] Fidus quae tela gerebat Achates is condemned by Peerlkamp, and regarded by Ribbeck as a ‘stop-gap’ (“tibicen”） which Virg. would have removed in correcting the poem. Really however it marks the accidental character of the affair, which is important, as remarked on v. 180. ‘Quae tela’ follows ‘arcum sagittasque,’ as “quo litore” follows “locum” in 7. 477, comp. by Gossrau.
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