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[493] Dido's apology, as the commentators remark, is conceived in the spirit not of legendary Carthage but of historical Rome. Serv. says, “Cum multa sacra Romani susciperent, magica semper damnaverunt.” ‘Accingier’ seems to be a metaphor from a weapon—not an unnatural one under the circumstances. The construction with the abl. is the usual one in Virg.: but here he has preferred the Greek acc. We have had the archaic form of the inf. G. 1. 454.

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