h  seemed  otherwise  to  the  gods.    Something  435.  Gravior  tevo :  Iphitus  was  now  op-
it  is  evident  must  bo  understood.    Now,  the  pressed  or  enfeebled  with  age;  and  Pelias
mention  of  this  excellent  man,  would  natu-  disabled  by  a  wound  which  he  had  received
rally  suggest  the  reflection  that  he  deserved  from  Ulysses,    ^vo:  for  annit,
t  better  end:  he  ought  not  to  have  fallen  437.   Protintis:    immediately— in  haste
with  the  rest;  but  he  chocks  himself:  Dis  VocaH:  tumus  is  understood.
Mer  tisum :   it  seemed  otherwise  to  the  438.  Ceu :  in  the  sense  of  9111m.    It  is
gods.    Commentators  have  been  much  di-  understood  before  nuUu   Bella :  in  the  sense
Tided  in  opinion  upon  these  words.     But  in  of  pugnce.
this  view  they  are  plain  and  intelligible.  440   Martem  indmiiitaa:  Mats,  fnriooa,

The  verb  tai*'      •     -     •  ungovemed.    Jtfart,  the  god  of  war,  put  Ptr


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Cemimus,  obsessumque  act&  testudine  limea.
Hacrent  parietibita  scale,  postesque  sub  ipscw
443.  Banai  nitiuiAar   Nituntur  gractibus ;  clypeoaque  ad  tela  sinistiif

Protect]  objiciunt,  prensant  fastigia  dextris.
Dardanidae  contra  lunres  ac  tecta  domonim  445

446.  Hi*  telis  parant  Culmina  convellunt :  his  se,  quando  ultima  ceRnuit«
defimdara  m  Extrema  jam  in  morte  parant  defendere  talis ;

Auratasque  trabes,  Tetenmi  decora  alta  parentimif
Devolvuiit :  alii  strictis  mucronibua  imaa
ObsedSre  fores :  has  servant  agmine  dense*  4fi0

451.  JVcmA^  animi  nm/ iiistaurati  anirai,  regis  succurreretecti&,
tnstannti  Auxilioque  levare  viros,  vimque  addere  victia.
Limen  erat,  ceceque  fores,  et  pervius  usiis
455.  Dum  regna  Pri-  Tectorum  inter  se  Priami,  postesque  relicti
am  A  tergo :  infelix  qu&  se,  dum  regna  manebant,  4fifi

NOTES.
war,  or  lightiiif  ia  feaeral.    Ad  teeta :  to  447.  In  estrtma  morit :  in  the  lait  esiis-

the  palace.  trophe.    Suprema  ruinA^  eajs  Rueos.
