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[92] Adflictus: dashed down from my prosperity, as Henry explains it; so ‘tenebris,’ in obscurity, contrasts with ‘nomenque decusque.’ “Ipsi se in tenebris volvi caenoque queruntur,” Lucr. 3.77. Comp. Id. 2. 15, 54., 5. 11. The last passage might be quoted in support of a curious variety in the Verona palimp. here, ‘fluctuque.’

John Conington. P. Vergili Maronis opera. P. Vergili Maronis Opera. The works of Virgil, with a Commentary by John Conington, M.A. Late Corpus Professor of Latin in the University of Oxford. London. Whittaker and Co., Ave Maria Lane. 1876.

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