[360] Incendere is applied to the agitation of grief as well as of anger, 9. 500. It is in the former sense that we must understand it as applied to Aeneas, though no sharp distinction is intended between the excitement which Aeneas and Dido would respectively feel in prolonging a scene like this.
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