[141] Of the two presents ‘generat’ is to be explained as a peculiar usage of words connected with birth (see on E. 8. 45), like the Greek τίκτει in such passages as Eur. Bacchae 2, ‘tollit’ as virtually i. q. “sublata gerit,” which is nearly its force in 2. 635, “quem tollere in altos Optabam montis.”
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