[150] For ‘quidve ipse’ Pal. has (mostly in an erasure) ‘aut quidve,’ and so Gud., with ‘ipse’ written above as a correction. Serv. says that in his time many thought Virg. should have written “quidque petat quidque ipse ferat,” and Jahn would correct the passage accordingly. No doubt ‘que’ is required in strictness of expression, as, though the questions might be put disjunctively, they could not be so answered: but Virg., as Wagn. rightly remarks, is thinking of the questions as put by Tarchon. For the disjunctive in questions comp. 2. 75, 151, G. 4. 446 &c. ‘Quid ferat,’ ‘what offers he brings with him,’ as 2. 75.
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