[429] She tells him in effect that the last request she will ask him is that he will abandon an intention fraught with danger to himself—an artful way of pleading for her own interest. Thus there may be a special force in ‘amanti.’ In vv. 309 foll. she regards his voyage in a stormy season rather as cruelty to her, as showing his resolution to leave her at all hazards.
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