[628] This line describes the march of the assembling troops. ‘Signa ferre,’ to advance, 8. 498 (comp. “inferre signa,” “conferre signa”), with the notion also of course of the pride taken in displaying or advancing the standards. Med. has ‘iubet,’ the same variety as in 4. 498, from which Heins. plausibly suggests ‘lubet,’ a variety actually found along with ‘iuvat’ 9. 514. But the copyist may have thought of 8. 498, “signaque ferre iubent.” Generally we may comp. Hor. 1 Od. 1. 23, “Multos castra iuvant et lituo tubae Permixtus sonitus,” which may have been in Virg.'s mind.
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