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[806] Daret leto G. 3. 480 note. The phrase was a common one at Rome, it being the custom to announce a public funeral (hence called ‘funus indictivum’） by the herald in the words “Ollus Quiris leto datus est” (Festus s. v. ‘Quiris,’ Varro L. L. 7. 42 Müller). ‘Gemerent’ &c. is again from Il. 21. 218, where Xanthus says— “πλήθει γὰρ δή μοι νεκύων ἐρατεινὰ ῥέεθρα
οὐδέ τί πη δύναμαι προχέειν ῥόον εἰς ἅλα δῖαν,
στεινόμενος νεκύεσσι: σὺ δὲ κτείνεις ἀϊδήλως.
”

Virg. perhaps alludes to the connexion of the two senses of στένω.

John Conington. P. Vergili Maronis opera. P. Vergili Maronis Opera. The works of Virgil, with a Commentary by John Conington, M.A. Late Corpus Professor of Latin in the University of Oxford. London. Whittaker and Co., Ave Maria Lane. 1876.

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