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[528] This line, which, with the variation of ‘laxabant’ for ‘lenibant,’ occurs again 9. 225, is omitted here by Med., Pal., and others of the better MSS. After all that has been said, it seems to be almost wholly a question of external evidence, as the passage would I think be equally good with and without it; though the pointing, as has been said above, will have to be differently arranged according as it is accepted or rejected. The change of ‘lenibant’ for ‘laxabant’ may perhaps be, as Forb. contends, a slight argument for its genuineness; but though ‘lenibant’ is a word which Virg. might have written, it is no more than might have occurred by a slip of the memory to an ingenious grammarian. On the whole, while considering that the balance of probability is against the verse, I have retained it in brackets, as I have usually done in such cases.

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