[492] The ‘custodes’ are the ‘armati’ just mentioned. The object of ‘sufferre’ appears to be ‘vim.’ It is questioned whether ‘aricte’ means a battering ram proper, or merely the battering of Pyrrhus' axe. The former seems more natural, and the anachronism is quite in Virg.'s manner. ‘Crebro,’ as Forb. remarks, implies not that there were more than one ‘aries,’ but that its strokes were many.
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