[487] Soror with reference to ‘pueri’ and ‘pater.’ ‘Adsuetus inperiis’ is a sort of paraphrase of “mansuetus,” which is expanded further v. 490 below. Serv. remarks of ‘Silvia’ “bonum puellae rusticae nomen formavit;” but the name was doubtless chosen from its connexion with early Italian history, e. g. Rea Silvia and Silvius Aeneas.
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