[654] Collo for the neck, a construction generally found where there is a verb or verbal notion, as in 10. 135, “Aut collo decus aut capiti.” Such a notion we may borrow here if we please from “munera ferre” above v. 647. So perhaps 7. 350, “fit tortile collo Aurum ingens coluber,” though there a local abl. is at least equally possible. For ‘monile bacatum’ see Dict. A. “monile.”
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