[21] Late regem, comp. εὐρυκρείων, and “late tyrannus,” Hor. 3. Od. 17. 9. ‘Populus’ is a personification, and therefore takes the epithet ‘rex.’ ‘Hinc,’ i.e. ‘Trojano a sanguine,’ rather than ‘ex hac progenie;’ but it is not very clear, as, though in the latter case the distinction between the ‘progenies’ and the ‘populus’ springing from it seems unmeaning, the former view creates a tautology. In v. 235, where the expression is somewhat parallel, “revocato a sanguine Teucri” seems epexegetical of “hinc.” Serv. mentions that Probus marked this and the next line as doubtful; but it seems to have been merely a critical opinion. ‘Superbus’ here seems to be equivalent to ‘praestans,’ as in Sil. 10. 573, “I, decus Ausoniae, quo fas est ire superbas Virtute et factis animas.”
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