[361] Ἀμφιδάμας δὲ Μόλῳ δῶκε ξεινήι_ον εἶναι Il. 10. 269. Here the gift is sent in order to cement a friendship. Virg. apparently uses ‘mittit’ rather than “misit” because of ‘dat’ in the next line. For the present see on v. 267 above. In translating the passage about the sceptre from Il. 2 Pope similarly employs the historie present. For the imperf. subj. in connexion with the historic present see Madv. § 382. obs. 3. “Iungi hospitio” 7. 264. The object of ‘iungeret’ is of course Remulus.
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