[581] The so-called past futures ‘occiderit,’ ‘arserit,’ ‘sudarit,’ are meant to indicate those circumstances in the past which make it monstrous that the event spoken of as future, ‘aspiciet,’ ‘ibit,’ ‘videbit,’ should ever be realized. The sense is ‘shall she return, now that Priam has been murdered, Troy burned, Dardania bathed in blood?’ So in 4. 590, well comp. by Wund. “Pro Iuppiter! ibit Ille, ait, et nostris illuserit advena regnis?” is a vivid poetical equivalent for “ibit advena qui nostris illusit regnis?”
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