[522] ‘Pinum’ is doubtless a torch, not, as has been thought, Mezentius' spear (comp. 10. 762): but the epithet ‘Etruscam’ seems an idle one, as he is not likely to have brought a torch with him from his own country, and to call the torch Etruscan simply as carried by him is to exceed Virg.'s ordinary licence in the transference of epithets.
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