[24] “Vitiose in media oratione ‘ait’ positum critici notant,” Serv. Heyne thinks these critics must have been “satis indocti:” Peerlkamp however wishes to read “Ite agite.” Jahn comp. 3. 480, where ‘ait’ is similarly introduced towards the end of a speech. Here he supposes it to denote that Aeneas makes a pause and resumes his address. Perhaps we had better say that after giving general injunctions in the earlier part of his speech, he here issues a special order, turning, as Burm. suggests, to particular persons. For ‘quae’ the MSS. of Macrob. S. 4. 4, where the words are quoted, read ‘qui,’ which some critics wish to restore: but Wagn. rightly remarks that the change is accounted for by the fact that the quotation does not include ‘egregias animas.’
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