[576] Crinali auro: see on 4. 138. ‘Crinale’ is found alone Ov. M. 5. 53, “(ornabat) maDidos myrrha curvum crinale capillos,” where the epithet suggests a “fibula,” or perhaps a “circulus” (10. 138), rather than, as Forc. thinks, an “acus.” In what sense the tiger's skin supplied the place of the ‘crinale aurum’ is difficult to see. Perhaps the head of the beast formed a cap, as in the case of the lion's skin 7. 667. Cerda refers to Val. F. 6. 704 foll., where when a personage clad in tiger's skin is slain, it is said “perquam optima fictione” (as he thinks), “subitos ex ore cruores Saucia tigris hiat vitamque effundit herilem.” But Virg. may have written loosely, intending no more than that a tiger's hide was Camilla's only ornament. For a beast's hide worn by a hunter as a chlamys comp. v. 679 below, 1. 323. Meantime one inferior MS. has ‘vittae’ for ‘pallae,’ doubtless from 7. 352. The ‘palla’ was long: see on 1. 404.
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