[397] Heins. objected to the repetition of ‘fuisset,’ wishing either to read ‘subisset’ in the previous line, as in 9. 757, or to expunge the present line altogether: Jahn however thinks with justice that the repetition gives symmetry and point to the sentence. It may be said in fact to bring out the notion of the correspondence of the will of fate with that of Venus, which Vulcan wishes to express. So far as any definite theological meaning is to be attached to this and the two following lines, it seems to be that the fate of Troy might have been delayed, had Venus wished it, though not averted, a view agreeing with the language of Virg. elsewhere, 1. 299., 7. 313 foll., 10. 624 foll. ‘Teucros’ seems to be put for Aeneas alone, by a rhetorical exaggeration. Pal. originally had ‘Teucros nobis.’
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