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levitas . . . alas, not like our metaphorical expression ‘to lend wings’ (Milt. P.l. I. 674, ‘winged with speed’), as the alas are the actual wings in which the lightness of the ashes takes form.
Charles Simmons. Metamorphoseon XIII. xiv. The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books XIII. and XIV. Edited, with introduction, analysis, and notes by Charles Simmons. New York. Macmillan. 1899.
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