genus . . . virorum, ‘a gentle race of suitors.’ Virgo and viri connote humanity and contrast the mortal Scylla and her human suitors with the goddess Galatea and the monstrous Cyclop. For vir thus used cf. XIV. 834 n.
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genus . . . virorum, ‘a gentle race of suitors.’ Virgo and viri connote humanity and contrast the mortal Scylla and her human suitors with the goddess Galatea and the monstrous Cyclop. For vir thus used cf. XIV. 834 n.
Charles Simmons. Metamorphoseon XIII. xiv. The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books XIII. and XIV. Edited, with introduction, analysis, and notes by Charles Simmons. New York. Macmillan. 1899.
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