[417] ‘Trifauci,’ apparently from ‘trifaux,’ is found nowhere else. With ‘trifauci latratu,’ an expression very similar to many in Greek poetry, we may perhaps comp. “tripectora vis Geryonai” Lucr. 5. 28. The name of Cerberus is not mentioned in Hom., who simply speaks of κύων, but occurs Hesiod, Theog. 311.
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