[751] Anchises answers Aeneas' question vv. 719 foll., how those who had been set free from the body could wish to return to it. Perhaps it is best with the later editors to place no stop after ‘rursus,’ leaving it to be taken with both verbs, ‘revisant’ and ‘reverti.’ Gossrau has collected many instances where it is used with compounds of ‘re,’ such as “rursum redire” Ter. Adelph. 1. 1. 46., 4. 2. 40. Comp. v. 449 above. So πάλιν αὖθις, αὖθις αὖ.
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