[549] See on 2. 234, a passage which, like this, enables us to discriminate between ‘murus’ and ‘moenia.’ It signifies little whether we suppose that here we are intended to conceive of one large building or of several. In any case we are meant to imagine a tower or Bastille. The wall that surrounds it is from Hesiod, Theog. 726, τὸν (Τάρταρον) περὶ χάλκεον ἕρκος ἐλήλαται.
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