[102] Ferro fusa like “somno vinoque fusa” 9. 316. ‘Iacebant’ is taken out of the oratio obliqua, perhaps for the sake of liveliness, as if Virg. meant to say that Aeneas did not merely hear of the bodies as mentioned by the ambassadors, but saw them before him as they were speaking. But there are other instances of which no such account can be given: see Madv. § 369, obs. 2.
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