“Next Mettus the swift cars asunder tore,These figures and the like, which consist in change,
(Better, false Alban, hadst thou kept thy troth!)
And Tullus dragged the traitors' mangled limbs. . .
”
[26]
Virgil has combined apostrollphe and parenthesis in
the well-known passage:1
[p. 461]
1 Aen. viii. 642.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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