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This article identifies a point of grammar favoured by Sophocles, and shows an instance in the *Aeneid* in which Vergil uses the same structure.

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Why is it important?

This is one more (previously unrecognized) piece of evidence that Vergil deliberately shaped his Dido-story on the lines of Greek tragedy

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This page is a summary of: Diuum incedo regina: A Sophoclean Idiom in Vergil, Aeneid 1.46, Philologus, January 2016, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/phil-2016-0009.
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