[38] Od. 8. 507, where the three propositions debated are breaking open the horse (διατμῆξαι, stronger than ‘terebrare’), casting it from a precipice, and accepting it as a peace-offering to the gods. ‘Temptare’ here is simply to search, with no notion of danger, as Forb. thinks, whatever it may have clsewhere. ‘Cavas latebras,’ a translation of κοῖλον λόχον, Od. 4. 277., 8. 515.
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