[684] The simile is from Il. 13. 137 foll. The difference between Virg. and Hom. is that Homer makes Hector stop when he meets with the πυκιναὶ φάλαγγες just as the stone stops (ἐσσύμενός περ） when it reaches the plain: whereas with Virg., whose object here is to glorify Turnus, the stone must do real destruction, which in Hom. it does not. Wagn. is right in removing Heyne's comma after ‘veluti,’ which does not go with ‘fertur,’ v. 687.
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