[83] Of ‘absens absentem’ Serv. curtly remarks “unum sufficeret.” He might have added that in logical strictness only one ought to have been used. But the poetry of the passage of course gains much from the iteration of the notion of absence. ‘Him far away she sees and hears, herself far away.’ With the general sense Taubm. comp. vv. 4, 5 above.
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