[90] Intonuere poli, “axes, i. e. extremae partes caeli super quibus caelum vertitur, i. e. πολεῖται, unde vertices Latine, Graece πόλοι dicuntur: duo enim sunt, Notios et Boreos, a quibus totum caelum contonuisse significat,” Serv. ‘It thunders from pole to pole.’ Heyne and others think it would be more forcible to omit ‘et,’ with one or two MSS.; but this would spoil the sense, as of course the lightning really comes before the thunder, whereas, if the two were mentioned separately, it would seem as if the poet actually intended to reverse the natural order.
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