[405] Aufidus may be mentioned as running through Diomed's territory: but as it also belonged to Turnus' (comp. Hor. 3 Od. 30. 10 foll.), it seems rather to indicate the supposed terror in Italy on the approach of the Trojans. With the image comp. 6. 800, and, if the parallel be not out of place, Psalm 114. 3. ‘Retro fugit undas,’ flies backward from the sea into which it would naturally fall.
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