[732, 733] Ictum Rom. and apparently Med. originally. The apparent ellipse, ‘deserit—ni fuga—subeat,’ has a good rhetorical effect: we may perhaps comp. 8. 520 foll., “Defixique ora tenebant . . . multaque . . . putabant, Ni signum caelo Cytherea dedisset ab alto.” Ribbeck inserts marks of a lacuna after ‘ictu.’ Wagn. explains the ellipse by making ‘deserit’ = “prodidit:” Heyne by supplying in thought “et inermis relictus Turnus periisset.”
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