[671] Culmina = “tecta,” as in 5. 459. which accounts for its use with a genitive here, not of the thing which has a summit, Gossrau has a good note on the practice of placing prepositions after their cases, observing that it is usually found in the case of substantives, first, before an adj., as in “fronde super viridi” E. 1. 81; secondly, before a gen., as here; thirdly, before a second substantive similarly governed, as in “saxa per et scopulos” G. 3. 276; further that it is more common in the case of dissyllabic than in that of monosyllabic prepositions, and after a pronoun, like ‘qui’ or ‘hic’ than after a substantive.
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