[518] Ipsum: that Priam himself should have put on armour would make Hecuba feel keenly the miserable reversal of all former relations which the sack of a city produces. For ‘iuvenalibus,’ which is apparently read by all Ribbeck's MSS., the reading before Heins. was ‘iuvenilibus,’ which seems the commoner word, though the MSS. appear to vary in other passages of other authors, no less than in this. In the three other passages where the word occurs in Virg. (5. 475., 8. 163., 12. 221), it is supported by Med., and in one of them, the first, it now appears to be in all Ribbeck's MSS., and is acknowledged by Charisius.
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