[27] Forb. would make ‘domus’ nom. in apposition to ‘labor,’ like 7. 248, “Iliadumque labor vestes:” but it is doubtless gen., probably to be explained as definitive (Madv. § 286), like ‘opus Academicorum,’ ‘familia Scipionum.’ The labour is that of Daedalus, not, as Heyne thought, that of the wanderers in the labyrinth. Perhaps also ‘domus’ is to be constructed with ‘error’ as in Catull. 62 (64). 115, which Virg. had in his mind, “Tecti frustraretur inobservabilis error,” though the construction would not be quite the same as that with ‘labor.’ “Falleret indeprensus et inremeabilis error” 5. 591.
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