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... paterni: illum aget penna metuente solvi Fama...

penna metuente solvi: penna: cf. pinnata fama (Verg. Aen. 9.473). Cf. ibid. 4.181; Spenser, Ruins of Time, 'But Fame with golden wings aloft doth fly,' etc. metuente solvi: unflagging, with a possible glance at the wax-joined wings of Icarus. From the commentary on Perseus; lit., "wing fearing to be unbound," "solvi," being the present pass. inf; cf. Lewis & Short for examples of "metuere" w. inf.