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tuae puellae: Dative of reference, not objective genitive, though either would give the same sense.

The principal caesura in this line is the feminine in the third metron; this is one of only five hexameters with this caesura, and the only one where it is the principal caesura. In the others (see introduction), the principal caesura is in the second or fourth metron.


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