[710] Bentley l. c. wished to read ‘pascit’ or ‘pavit’ for ‘pastus:’ and Cunningham conj. ‘Pastum in arundinea.’ There is considerable awkwardness in the text as it stands, as though the clause ‘silva pastus arundinea’ is grammatically correlative to ‘de montibus actus,’ they do not really correspond, neither the time nor the action spoken of being parallel; but this is not a fatal objection in a writer like Virg., who is apt to violate symmetry, either logical or grammatical, for variety's sake. See on 2. 86. Serv. calls it an antiptosis, but does not explain the nature of the difficulty.
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