[413] Not the blood and brains of Eryx himself, which could not well have been sprinkled on his own gauntlets (though Serv. says “Erycis, qui infecerat se tegendo,” a view which might conceivably be supported by Val. Fl. 4. 298, 332), but those of the men he had slain in his time. ‘Quondam gerebat’ forms a sort of contrast with ‘stetit,’ the one referring to his whole pugilistic life, the other to his last fatal conflict. ‘Sparso’ Rom., Med., Pal., &c., ‘fracto’ some other MSS., which Heins. preferred and Heyne retained. But Wagn. rightly remarks that “effracto cerebro” v. 480 would hardly justify “fracto cerebro” here.
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