[312] Mandata dabat portanda is the order in all Ribbeck's MSS. Heyne retained the old reading ‘portanda dabat mandata.’ ‘Mandata dabat’ occurs in the same place in the line 6. 116. Here the imperf. seems to be used to denote frequency, as if Ascanius had not done when Nisus and Euryalus departed. Mr. Nettleship suggests that it denotes incompleteness, indicating that the message was never delivered.
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