[449] Lacrimae can only be the tears of Dido, as represented and shared by Anna. To refer them with Henry to those of Aeneas, who weeps but is resolute, is a less obvious thought, and not supported by the parallel which, following Serv., he fancifully imagines between the falling leaves and the falling tears, as instances of a superficial effect produced in each of the two cases. As Wagn. remarks, the opposition, if any, is between ‘pectore’ and ‘mens,’ not between ‘mens’ and ‘lacrimae.’
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