[466] Ingens argentum 1. 640. ‘Dodonaeos lebetas:’ the oracle at Dodona, according to Serv., contained brazen vessels which used to sound all at once at a single touch. Wagn. supposes that Virg. took the epithet from some Greek poet who represented Helenus as having settled at Dodona (see on v. 296).
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