[159] Ἀργεῖοι: emphatic.—“ἐπ̓ εὐρέα νῶτα κτλ”.: over the broad back of the sea. When the waves are at rest the monstrous mass seems to be the top of an arch. Latin poets have dorsum or terga maris.
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