[271] Serv. accounts for the change from the language of v. 235 by saying that Aeneas would not have recognized Carthage as hostile, though Jupiter knew it really to be so. ‘Terere otia’ like “terere tempus” &c. Cerda, remarking on ‘teris—terris,’ thinks that Virg. intended to allude to the etymology of “terra” from “terere.” This is of course absurd; but the jingle can hardly have been unintentional, either here or in such passages as v. 238, “parere parabat,” 10. 191, 192 “cănit—cānentem,” ib. 417, 418 “cănens—cānentia.” See on 2. 494.
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