[488] Ululant is transferred from the women to the walls which echo their shrieks, as Lucr. 1.256 talks of the woods as singing with birds. “‘Aurea sidera’ multi ad laquearia referunt, quod stultum est.” Serv. It must be admitted perhaps that the epithet (which recurs 11. 832) comes in poorly here.
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