[915] Both parties encamp outside the city and form temporary works. The Trojan camp cannot be the same as “nova Troia,” which was at a greater distance. Serv. has a strange note on ‘moenia vallant,’ “hinc probatur quia et qui tuentur et qui obsident vallare dicuntur,” as if he took ‘moenia’ of the city-walls.
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