[367] So in Il. 23. 664 foll. Epeus comes forward at once. Virg. has softened the traits of his original, as the Homeric champion is more boastful and self-confident than Dares, and more successful also. ‘Vastis viribus’ without ‘cum’ would have been more usual: the addition of the preposition however seems to give the notion that he rose with all his bulk about him, as we might say. The expressions classified by Madv. § 257 obss. are not quite of the same kind. We may however comp. the use of σύν, as in Hom. Od. 24. 192, ἦ ἄρα σὺν μεγάλῃ ἀρετῇ ἐκτήσω ἄκοιτιν.
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