[15] Exaudiri, reached the ears of the Trojans. In Hom. the lions and wolves are tamed by Circe's sorceries, so that they fawn upon comers, and are suffered to run loose. The swine are men metamorphosed, and are kept in sties. There are no wild boars or bears. “Hinc exaudiri gemitus” 6. 557. ‘Gemere’ is used by the Roman poets of the roaring of wild beasts, as by Hor. Epod. 16. 51 of bears. Lucr. 3.297 has “leonum Pectora qui fremitu rumpunt plerumque gementes Nec capere irarum fluctus in pectore possunt,” which Virg. probably had in his mind, as he certainly had when writing v. 466 below. ‘Gemitus iraeque’ is thus ἓν διὰ δυοῖν, as Serv. takes it, though Gossrau wishes to distinguish between the tones of grief and those of indignation.
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