[676] Turnus seems to take the destruction of his own handiwork as an omen of coming death. For ‘iam iam’ Minoraug. has ‘iam nos.’ With the sense comp. v. 150 above, “Parcarumque dies et vis inimica propinquat.” Νῦν αὖτέ με Μοῖρα κιχάνει, says Hector Il. 22. 303. ‘Morari,’ to try to check the course of destiny by keeping me back. Pal. and Gud. have ‘morare.’
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