[679] Cum must be the conjunction, not, as Heyne, who generally writes ‘quum,’ appears to have considered it, the preposition. ‘Vertice celso’ then will be not the tall tops of the trees, but the high mountain on which they stand—a more striking picture. This gives more force to ‘cum’—‘as when trees are planted together on a mountain-top.’
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