[780] Venatrix is coupled by Ribbeck, after H. Stephens, with what goes before; but such an accoutrement would seem to be more natural in the case of Dido, with whom hunting is a holiday pastime (4. 138), than in that of Camilla, with whom it is a serious business. It is better, with Peerlkamp, to suppose that it indicates the spirit with which she pursues Chloreus, than, with Wagn., to connect it with ‘virgo,’ as part of the definition of Camilla. ‘Ex omni certamine’ for “ex omnibus certantibus,” like “pugnae in certamine” 12. 598, perhaps, as Cerda suggests, from Lucr. 4.843.
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