[475] Nec minus, notwithstanding her sullen flight. ‘Casu iniquo,’ Dido's misfortunes, the thought of which was revived and intensified in Aeneas' mind by what had just passed, not, as Wagn. thinks, his own repulse. I have restored ‘concussus,’ the reading of Med., Pal., and Gud., for ‘percussus’ (Rom.), which, as the commoner word, is more likely to be due to a copyist. We have already had “casu concussus acerbo” 5. 700, “casu concussus amici” ib. 869. Wagn.'s defence of ‘percussus’ as giving a more appropriate sense is founded on his interpretation of ‘casu iniquo,’ and may fall with it. There is a further variety ‘perculsus’ found in some MSS.
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