intabescere, βto melt.β The same image of a bullet fused by its passage through the air is used
It is evidently taken from Lucr.vi. 178, ib. 306, where see Munro. Cf. Virg. Aen.IX. 588, Stat. Theb.X. 533.βnon secus exarsit quam cum Balearica plumbum
funda iacit: volat illud et incandescit eundo,
et quos non habuit, sub nubibus invenit ignes.
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