[384] “Ergo iter inceptum celerant,” 8. 90. Here ‘ergo’ denotes not a consequence from what has been related, but a resumption of the main subject, as in G. 4. 206 note. ‘Peragunt’ strictly refers to their going through their whole journey point by point, so that it extends to a time subsequent to ‘fluvioque propinquant.’ Comp. Ov. F. 1. 188, “peragat coeptum dulcis ut annus iter.” Practically in a context like this we may take it ‘begin to go through.’ Thus it would nearly = ‘pergunt,’ which Peerlkamp wishes to substitute for it here; it is important however to observe that this force is not inherent in the word, but communicated from the context.
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