[4] Ut follows ‘renovare dolorem,’ which is practically equivalent to ‘narrare,’ as it is in telling about sorrow once felt that the renewal of the pain consists. Häckermann, followed by Ladewig, Haupt, and Ribbeck, ingeniously puts a period after ‘dolorem,’ so as to connect ‘ut . . . fui’ with ‘quis talia fando,’ v. 6, the sentence thus created being a sort of expansion of v. 3, ‘fando’ answering to ‘infandum:’ but this, though rhetorically effective, would be hardly in Virg.'s manner, while it would detract from the propriety of the clause ‘quaeque . . . fui,’ if indeed it would not lead us rather to expect ‘viderim . . . fuerim.’ I am glad to see that Wagn. (Lectt. Vergg. p. 415) defends the old pointing on similar grounds. ‘Lamentabile’ is used proleptically. ‘How the power of Troy and its empire met with piteous overthrow from the Danaans.’
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