[359] In Serv.'s time there was a doubt about the construction, some taking ‘cedat’ with ‘ius proprium,’ others referring it back to ‘veniam:’ but it clearly stands alone in its ordinary sense. ‘Regi patriaeque:’ Latinus had a right to dispose of his daughter's hand, while the country might claim a voice in the marriage-choice of the heir to the crown. Drances treats Turnus not as a stranger (which would have admitted his eligibility as a bridegroom), but as one of the citizens. One inferior MS. has ‘patrique,’ which Heyne and Brunck wished to read, inserting another ‘que’ after ‘regi.’
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