[334] Torserit, will be found to have hurled. For ‘steterunt,’ the tense required by the meaning. Med. first reading has ‘steterint,’ and Gud. corrected ‘steterant;’ and for ‘quae’ Med. corrected, Rom., and Gud. give ‘que,’ a reading which Serv. mentions, saying that it was explained by some as = “enim.” ‘Quae’ for “eorum quae:” comp. E. 2. 71, “quin tu aliquid saltem potius quorum indiget usus” &c., where “quorum” = “eorum quorum.” ‘Stare’ of a weapon fixed in the body, as 11. 817. Comp. Livy 27. 14, “in quorum tergis infixa stetere pila.” Virg. has here taken the words but not the sense of Il. 14. 454 foll. Οὐ μὰν αὖτ᾽ ὀΐω μεγαθύμου ΙΙανθοΐδαο Χειρὸς ἀπὸ στιβαρῆς ἅλιον πηδῆσαι α^κοντα, Ἀλλά τις Ἀργείων κόμισε χροΐ. Comp. 8. 298 Ὀκτὼ δὴ προέηκα τανυγλώχινας ὀϊστούς, ΙΙάντες δ᾽ ἐν χροΐ πῆχθεν Ἀρηϊθόων αἰζηῶν, where the sing. χροΐ may illustrate (if it did not suggest) the sing. ‘corpore’ in this passage. It is doubtful whether ‘corpore’ = “corporibus” (comp. Eur. Suppl. 273, τέκνων τεθνεώτων κομίσαι δέμας, where however the fact that δέμας has no pl. makes a difference, and perhaps Att. Epinausim. fr. 12 “Atque acervos alta in amni corpore explevi hostico”), or ‘corpore Graium’ = “in aliquo de Graiis:” neither is altogether satisfactory.
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