[610] Comp. G. 2. 507, “Condit opes alius, defossoque incubat auro:” there however the man hides his money in the earth, here he has found a treasure. Heyne gives ‘repertis’ the sense of ‘partis,’ which would suit the general language in the next line better, ‘quae maxuma turba est:’ but the other sense is more natural and more picturesque, and Virg. may mean the treasure-finder as a type of all who are greedy of gain. Comp. for the picturesque image expressed in ‘soli’ Hor. 1 S. 1. 66 foll.
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