[259] Vel Priamo miseranda manus is the counterpart of Aeneas' language 2. 6 foll. Serv. quotes Pacuvius inc. fr. 28, “Si Priamus adesset, et ipse eius commiseresceret.” There is another reading ‘domus,’ perhaps supported by Pal., which has ‘damus’ in an erasure. ‘Scit’ i.q. “testis est:” comp. G. 3. 474. ‘Triste Minervae sidus’ of the storm sent by Pallas on the return of the Greeks, Od. 3. 132 foll. ‘Sidus’ because of the connexion of storms with the appearance of certain stars, a reminiscence of the Georgics. See on 12. 451, “abrupto sidere.”
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