[604] Fulcra the pillar or support of the couch. ‘Toris’ may be either a dat. or an attributive abl., the couch being made, for poetical variety, the appendage to its pillar; or again the abl. may be local, ‘in’ or ‘upon.’ On any view, the case must be regarded as substituted for the gen., the natural one in prose. ‘Parare’ of getting ready a banquet 1. 638. Rom. has ‘paternae,’ a reading which in an author of less pure taste might conceivably be strained into an allusion to the feast of Tantalus.
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