[10] Nec (id) satis (est), a noticeable ellipse, as there is nothing in the structure of the sentence to suggest the pronoun, which has to be inferred from the context. We might resolve it into ‘nec satis (fecit hoc faciendo),’ but the difficulty would be the same. The meaning is that Aeneas has not only got the alliance of Evander and the Arcadians, but of the Etruscans; and this is expressed rhetorically, as if Aeneas went far to seek for the Etruscan alliance instead of having it offered him. ‘Corythi’ 3. 170., 7. 209. “Penetravit ad urbes” 7. 207, where, as here, there is the notion of difficulty and distance.
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