[547] “Tantum effatus, et infesta subit obvius hasta” 10. 877. ‘In verbo vestigia torsit’ is like “media in voce resistit” 4. 76, ‘in verbo’ meaning ‘even while he was speaking,’ to show Deiphobus' ready compliance. For ‘torsit’ Med., Rom., and one or two others give ‘pressit,’ which, if genuine, must be understood to mean that Deiphobus, having followed Aeneas and the Sibyl previously, at length stopped, and left them to pursue their journey. But ‘vestigia pressit’ has already occurred twice in this book, vv. 197, 331, and so would naturally suggest itself to a transcriber, while it is more likely that Deiphobus should be represented as moving away, which he would have to do (comp. v. 545), than as simply stopping. “Ad sonitum vocis vestigia torsit” 3. 669.
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