[349] Atque couples ‘caecus’ with ‘impius.’ ‘He was so blinded with the love of gold that he did not even respect the altar.’ Henry refers ‘impius’ to the unnatural character of the murder, comp. Ov. Her. 7. 127; and this is doubtless included in the notion of the word here: but that it also denotes impiety in our sense is plain from such passages as 2. 163. ‘Aras,’ the altar of the Penates. Comp. 4. 21, and see on v. 355 below.
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