[733] Subsidio subeat, an assonance rather in Lucretius' manner: see on 10. 552. ‘Subsidio’ = “in subsidium:” comp. “auxilio subeuntem” 2. 216 note. Heyne proposes a forced explanation: “nisi id, quod subsidium erat, fixa cogitatio subiisset eius animo.”
This text is part of:
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.