demittit: droops. Cf. χαλάξαις of the plumage of the eagle (Pindar, Pyth. 1. 6). centiceps: Cerberus has three heads generally, fifty in Hesiod, one hundred in Pindar. Possibly Horace is thinking of the hundred snakes that enwreathe his head, 3.11.17. See Bloomfield, Cerberus, the Dog of Hades, pp.5 sqq.
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Horace. Odes and Epodes. Edited with commentary by. Paul Shorey. revised by. Paul Shorey and Gordon J. Laing. New York. Benj. H. Sanborn and Co. 1910.
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