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Hagen persuades Gunther to try diplomacy before using force (571–580)

Tunc' ait 'ex pugna tibi, Hiltgunt sponsa, reservor.'  Aeineid 4.368: quae me ad maiora reservo? ‘For what greater wrongs do I hold myself back?’

 

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Hiatus: tibi Hiltgunt
 
Ast ubi Waltharium tali statione receptum  Aeineid 10.297: frangere nec tali puppim statione recuso. ‘I do not shrink from shipreck in such an anchorage.’

 

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Conspexit Hagano, satrapae mox ista superbo  SDDSDS 
Suggerit: 'o senior, desiste lacessere bello  Aeineid 11.842: Teucros conata lacessere bello. . . ‘Trying to defy the Teucrians in battle. . .’

 

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Hunc hominem! pergant primum, qui cuncta requirant, 575  Prudentius, Psychomachia 706 f: exquirens fervente tumultu/ et genus et nomen, patriam sectameque deumque. . . ‘Asking in an uproar of excitement her race and name, her country and her faith, what God she worships. . .’ Aeineid 1.380: quaero patriam et genus ab Iove summo. ‘I seek my father’s land and a race sprung from Jupiter most high.’

 

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Et genus et patriam nomenque locumque relictum,  Prudentius, Psychomachia 706 f: exquirens fervente tumultu/ et genus et nomen, patriam sectameque deumque. . . ‘Asking in an uproar of excitement her race and name, her country and her faith, what God she worships. . .’ Aeineid 1.380: quaero patriam et genus ab Iove summo. ‘I seek my father’s land and a race sprung from Jupiter most high.’

 

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Vel si forte petat pacem sine sanguine praebens  Si: beginning an indirect question after requirant.

 

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Thesaurum. per responsum cognoscere homonem  Homonem equiv. to hominem, an archaic form.

 

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Elision: cognoscere homonem
 
Possumus, et si Waltharius remoratur ibidem,  Remoratur ibidem: i.e., is of the same character as he was

 

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Est sapiens --, forsan vestro concedet honori. 580  DSSSDS 

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