[213] Virg. may have had his eye, as the commentators suppose, upon Il. 21. 493 foll., where Artemis flying from Hera is compared to a dove taking refuge from a hawk in a hollow rock, as the words κοίλην πέτρην, χηραμόν resemble ‘latebroso in pumice,’ though here the dove flies not into the rock but from it, leaving her young behind her. ‘Commovere’ of startling or rousing an animal 7. 494.
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