[59] Lucr. 1.277 foll. “venti . . corpora caeca Quae mare, quae terras, quae denique nubila caeli Verrunt ac subito vexantia turbine raptant.” ‘Quippe,’ as Heyne remarks, in prose would precede ‘ni faciat.’ Compare the position of ‘scilicet’ in poetry. ‘Per auras’ is equivalent to “per inane.”
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