[510] Deiphobo is emphatic. ‘In raising the cenotaph you have not gone through a mere empty form, but have propitiated the ghost of the real Deiphobus.’ The mangled body may have been buried by those who did not know whose it was: otherwise we might infer that Deiphobus' appearance on the right side of the Styx was owing to Aeneas' pious care. ‘Funeris’ seems i. q. ‘cadaveris,’ as in 9. 491. The commentators suppose that ‘umbris’ is used in contradistinction to the actual body, which was not found: but the sense seems to be quite the contrary, as I have just remarked on ‘Deiphobo’—the honour has been paid to the very man Deiphobus and his very shade. For the plural see 5. 81 &c.
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