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inclusam: the captive Danae. turris aenea: for aenea, cf. on 3.3.65. But the prehistoric (Mycenaean) bronze-plated walls may be meant. Cf. Soph. Antig. 946, ἐν χαλκοδέταις αὐλαῖς; Ov. Am. 2.19.27, si numquam Danaen habuisset aenea turris; Herrick, 298, 'Rosamund was in a bower| Kept as Danae in a tower'; id. 284, 'It be with Rock, or Walles of Brass | Ye Towre her up, as Danae was.'


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