[225] Latos populos occurs in Ennius, Ann. 1. fr. 4 (Vahlen). ‘Sic,’ i. e. ‘sic despiciens.’ Comp. 7. 668, where “sic subibat” refers to “torquens” and “indutus.” —‘Vertice caeli:’ Virg. has evidently taken these words from Il. 8. 51, αὐτὸς δ᾽ ἐν κορυφῇσι καθέζετο. Comp. also ib. 5. 754, ἀκροτάτῃ κορυφῇ πολυδειράδος Οὐλύμποιο. Hom. however intended the summit of the mountain Olympus; while Virg. apparently had a notion of the highest point of a celestial region, the same which he calls “caeli arcem,” v. 250.
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