[74] The meaning is, ‘Turnus is not free to delay his death, if it must come:’ comp. Hector's words to Andromache, Il. 6. 488, Μοῖραν δ᾽ οὔτινά φημι πεφυγμένον ἔμμεναι ἀνδρῶν, &c. “Non est mora libera nobis” Ov. M. 2. 143. (Forb.) Serv. counts this among the twelve insoluble passages in Virg., though he himself explains it quite clearly: “Si imminent fata, periturus sum, etiamsi minime ad bella proficiscar.”
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