It may be worth while also to look at xi. 390, because there the pause occurs in the middle of the impassioned rhetoric of Turnus against Drances, just to allow one bitter taunt to sink in, before he turns to take up another point of Drances' speech: "Imus in adversos-quid cessas ? an tibi Mavors ventosa in lingua pedibusque fugacibus istis semper erit ? pulsus ego? aut quisquam merito, foedissime, pulsum arguet. . . I think I may fairly assume that anyone who examines these passages, to help him in judging of the one more particularly under consideration, will not fail to conclude that the second bird-simile is absolutely inadmissible after the hemistich. * * Since this Appendix was written, Mr. Mackail has published some valuable remarks on Virgil's hemistichia in the Classical Review, December, 1915, p. 226. ADDENDA Lines 652-4: “ducit Agyllina nequiquam ex urbe secutos Mr. Mackail tells me in a letter that he considers these lines questionable on more than one ground. Apart from the awkwardness of "esset . . . esset," and the repetition of the clauses so ending, how could Lausus have brought a thousand men from Agylla, which was in full revolt against Mezentius and had expelled him as a fugitive (viii. 489 ff.) -apparently almost a solitary fugitive? Lines 695-696.—I am by no means sure that I was right in taking “aequi” as meaning just. Mr. Mackail thinks that in both these lines there is a coupling of hill fortresses and the arable country below them. According to the maps there is a considerable patch of arable land between Falerii and the Tiber, the hills falling back there from the river. Where Fescennium was we do not know. 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