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[179] The description is imitated from Il. 23. 114 foll. and also from Enn. A. 6. fr. 11, preserved by Macrob. Sat. 6. 2 The latter, as the rarer author, may be quoted: “Incedunt arbusta per alta: securibus caedunt:
Percellunt magnas quercus: exciditur ilex:
Fraxinus frangitur, atque abies consternitur alta:
Pinus proceras pervortunt: omne sonabat
Arbustum fremitu silvai frondosai.
”

Comp. also 11. 135 foll. “Stabula alta” 9. 388., 10. 723, which show that ‘alta’ here means high, not deep. For the sense comp. note on v. 8 above.

John Conington. P. Vergili Maronis opera. P. Vergili Maronis Opera. The works of Virgil, with a Commentary by John Conington, M.A. Late Corpus Professor of Latin in the University of Oxford. London. Whittaker and Co., Ave Maria Lane. 1876.

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