[221] Tabentes one of Ribbeck's cursives with the two Menteliani and some inferior copies: so Donatus on v. 219, “Tabentium genarum a macie repentina.” But Med., Pal., Rom., Gud. corrected and two more of Ribbeck's cursives give ‘pubentes:’ though Pierius says that in Med. ‘pubentes’ was altered from ‘tabentes.’ Serv. is silent. Whence ‘pubentes’ came it is hard to say: it gives no rational sense in this context. ‘Tabentes,’ wasted. ‘Iuvenali’ Heins. for ‘iuvenili,’ which is found in one of Ribbeck's cursives. Wagn. blames Virg. for inconsistency in representing Turnus' spirit as broken: but his character is throughout vehement and excitable (see on 10. 151), and it is not unnatural that his courage, like Hector's in Homer, should be damped in presence of a great crisis.
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