[508] Patria terra with ‘ponere,’ not with ‘decedens,’ though the juxtaposition of the words shows what kind of departure is meant, and so forestalls such objections as Peerlkamp's, if otherwise well founded, that ‘decedere’ alone would naturally imply death. ‘Ponere’ could not stand for burial by itself, and Gossrau's proposal to take ‘patria’ with ‘decedens,’ ‘terra’ with ‘ponere’ is not simple enough, and would besides rob the passage of its force, the point being not merely that Aeneas wished to bury Deiphobus, but that he wished to bury him at home.
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