[455] Tum is taken by Forb. as ‘moreover,’ preparing us for the mention of fresh motives. But I am not sure that the ordinary sense is not the more forcible, ‘tum’ having something of the force of ‘tum demum.’ Ribbeck makes the line parenthetical. Med. a m. p. has ‘tunc:’ see on 4. 408. “Pudor . . . . et conscia virtus” 12. 667, 668.
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