[744] Fefellit is rightly explained by Wagn. ἔλαθεν οὐ συνεφεπομένη, though he does not mention that the notion which stands for the Greek participle is contained in ‘comites.’ She played them false, or escaped their notice—how?—as her companions. The sense would have been clearer had Virg. written “comes,” but he has chosen to vary the expression by fixing the appellation on the less prominent of the two correlative parties. Comp. v. 99 above (note), where the variety is of an opposite kind. The meaning of course is that she was then first found to have disappeared.
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