ABSTRACT
More patrum, in the author's rendering going with canemus, has been taken by many with virtute functos … duces. Their main argument is based on the word order which in their view makes it unnatural to sever the sandwiched more patrum from its surroundings and attach it to the more distant canemus. The long syntactic period begins with a subject followed by temporal ablatives (profestis lucibus et sacris). Then two complements (inter and cum) with their individual lines are attached depicting not only a festive dinner party, but also conjuring up a grand family occasion. After the first object duces three more objects follow in the transmitted text, Troiam, Anchisen and progeniem before canemus.
