[268] Serv. defends Latinus against objectors who thought it indelicate in the king to offer his daughter, alleging both the oracle and the manners of the heroic age (comp. with Heyne Alcinous Od. 6. 311 foll.); and Donatus has an amusing note: “Verecunda oblatio et adversus omnem exprobrationem munita: ne forte illud dici posset Terentianum (Andr. 1. 5. 15), ‘Aliquid monstri alunt, et quoniam nemini obtrudi potest, itur ad me.’”
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