[257] Custodes v. 546. ‘Saevitque canum latratus in auras’ is said by Macrob. Sat. 6. 2 to be taken from a passage in Varius, a simile of a dog looking for a deer, where however the resemblance of the thought is entirely general, and the verbal similarity is confined to the words “Saevit in absentem.” ‘Saevit latratus in auras’ means more than “furit aestus ad auras” 2. 759, “quis tantus plangor ad auras” 6. 561, containing, as Wagn. remarks, not only the notion of the bark ascending to the sky, but that of its being directed against the sky, the dogs baying savagely at the eagle as he loses himself in the clouds, and so at the heaven itself, as they are said to howl at the moon.
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