[150] Tenebras probably refers to the secret passage by which, according to one version of the story (see on 2. 165), Diomed and Ulysses reached the citadel to carry off the Palladium: though another version may have stated that the thing was done by night. ‘Inertia,’ “imbellia:” see on v. 55.
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