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[320] Comp. vv. 36, 37 above. Either we must suppose Dido to have known of the indignation of Iarbas on hearing of her preference of Aeneas, or we must understand her to mean no more than that she has alienated her neighbours by refusing them the love which she has since bestowed on Aeneas. The last would be a sufficiently natural way of speaking in the bitterness of her despair, especially as she would feel that the indignation of her former suitors would be doubled as soon as she was known to have given herself to another. Perhaps the same explanation may apply to ‘infensi Tyrii,’ which according to this would refer either to suitors at Tyre (v. 35) or to Pygmalion, either of whom might be expected to resent the new alliance. But Gossrau's interpretation, referring ‘Tyrii’ to the Carthaginians, who are indignant at their queen for surrendering herself and them to a stranger, is on the whole more plausible. See on v. 466. For ‘Nomadum’ some MSS. have ‘Numidum.’

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