Note 19 — GEORGICS. BOOK IV.
Reading edition
Dr Carey reads, "through the race of life they quickly run," and has altered the punctuation to the sense thus conveyed; but I retain the reading of the first edition—though—which is clearly the meaning of Virgil. The original is as follows:
Ergo ipsas quamvis angusti terminus ævi Excipiat, neque enim plus septima ducitur æstas, At genus immortale manet, &c.