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E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus (ed. E. T. Merrill), Poem 68b (search)
uncommon; cf. Hor. Ep. 17.30 ardeo quantum … nec Sicana fervida virens in Aetna flamma ; Ov. Epist. Sapph. 12 me calor Aetnaeo non minor igne tenet . rupes: for mons, as in Catul. 61.28; cf. Grat. Cyn. 430 in Trinacria rupe . lympha: etc., the waters referred to are the hot springs that by their vicinity gave its name to the pass of Thermopylae. qualis: etc., i. e. the lover's tears ran as freely and constantly as an unfailing mountain-brook. The development of the details of the figure is but a poetical embellishment. With the figure in general cf. Hom. Il. 9.14 i(/stato da/kru xe/wn w(/s te krh/nh mela/nudros , etc.; Hom. Il.16.3; and a similar comparison of tears to melting snows in Sen. Phaedr. 389 ff. per