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[549] Fertur aqua is explained by the next clause to mean are carried without any exertion of their own: elsewhere it merely means navigation of any sort. So “fertur equis” sometimes means riding generally (5. 574), sometimes being rum away with (1. 476). “Missusque secundo defluit amni” G. 3. 447, ‘Segnis,’ without need of rowing, a contrast to their former journey, where, though Tiber made his stream smooth, “remigio noctemque diemque fatigant,” v. 94. The epithet is perhaps intended to hint a faint opposition between the ‘praestantis virtute’ and their inferiors, though it is difficult to justify such an opposition: see on v. 547.

John Conington. P. Vergili Maronis opera. P. Vergili Maronis Opera. The works of. Virgil. , with a Commentary by John Conington, M.A. and Henry Nettleship, M.A. London. Whittaker and Co., Ave Maria Lane;. George Bell and Sons, York Street, Covent Garden. 1876.

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