[346] Sed is rightly explained by Wagn. as showing why Rhoetus was as easily slaughtered as if he had been asleep; though awake, he was hiding in terror. Heyne makes a difficulty about the size of the ‘crater:’ but we may suppose that Rhoetus coiled himself up, and that after all he was imperfectly hidden. The sentence is inartificially constructed, like a Homeric clause with the nom. changed, e. g. Il. 18. 33, ὁ δ᾽ ἔστενε κυδάλιμον κῆρ.
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John Conington. P. Vergili Maronis opera. P. Vergili Maronis Opera. The works of. Virgil. , with a Commentary by John Conington, M.A. and Henry Nettleship, M.A. London. Whittaker and Co., Ave Maria Lane;. George Bell and Sons, York Street, Covent Garden. 1876.
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