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[630] Heyne wished to connect ‘fecerat’ with the preceding words: but Wagn. justly remarks that the word is not one which would bear an emphatic reduplication. ‘Et’ is naturally used in a description of particulars following a general account, like καί. ‘Antrum Mavortis,’ the Lupercal, v. 343. The representation of the wolf suckling the children is common in works of art. ‘Fetus’ here means after birth, as in G. 3. 176. ‘Fecerat procubuisse,’ had represented her as stretched. Gossran comp. Cic. N. D. 3. 16, “quem tamen Homerus conveniri apud inferos facit ab Ulixe.

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