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ambobus? (a morphologically peculiar adjective with a peculiar syntax here)
Ambobus here means "to both [of them]", used as a substantive—there's no noun it attaches to, it stands alone. Who who are "both of them"? In this case, it's Atridas Priamumque: ...
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Weird lines in the Aeneid (Book I, lines 444-445)
It seems to me that the core structure after the semicolon is:
sic fore [monstra(ve)rat] egregiam et facilem gentem
The gens is egregia and facilis.
Both adjectives come with an ablative of respect (...
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