[655] ‘Osirius’ Rom. ‘Qua advectus’ (= “advectus est”) like “quae passus” v. 162 above. It is hardly necessary (with Serv.) to identify Osinius with Massicus, leader of the Clusians, v. 166. It is quite in Virg.'s manner to mention out of its proper place the name of a subordinate chief which he had previously omitted. Comp. 9. 325 foll., where he mentions for the first time Rhamnes, a chief in the alliance of Turnus, whose name might certainly have been expected in the catalogue.
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