[123] Tegentur seems to imply not that the rest of the party are to be sheltered or hidden, but that they are to be shrouded so that they cannot see Dido and Aeneas. It would be possible of course to take ‘tegentur’ = “tegent se,” but ‘nocte opaca’ is rather against this.
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