[52] Virg.'s meaning evidently is that as the Greeks grew stronger the siege was converted into a blockade—an unseasonable introduction of the military tactics of his own time into the heroic age, and not very consistent with his own account of the ultimate capture of the city. The language in Eur. Hec. 4 is more general, ἐπεὶ Φρυγῶν πόλιν Κίνδυνος ἔσχε δορὶ πεσεῖν Ἑλληνικῷ.
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