[87] The meaning evidently is that Acoetes, while being led along, keeps throwing himself on the ground, as Heyne rightly takes it. Wagn. puts a comma after ‘sternitur,’ making ‘proiectus’ a finite verb: but the line requires connecting with the preceding. The editor of Bodoni's text thinks it spurious, and Ribbeck supposes a lacuna; but it is doubtless as Virg. wrote it, though the expression is a little careless. ‘Terrae’ is probably for “in terram:” but Virg. may have wished his readers also to think of the old locative. See on 6. 84.
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