[477, 478] Est molita Med. ‘Viam,’ v. 422 above. ‘Molita’ indicates the difficulty with which the spear made its way through the stout shield of Turnus: comp. Il. 7. 247—249: “molitur iter,” of a difficult journey 6. 477. ‘Tandem etiam’ carries on the idea of ‘molitur.’ ‘De corpore,’ as Heyne says, is like the Greek partitive gen., τοῦ σώματος ἐπέγραψε.
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