[624] This simile seems to be Virg.'s own: at least Il. 11. 305 foll., to which Heyne refers, bears no real resemblance to it. The object described, as Heyne remarks, is not the ebb and flow of the tide, but the alternate advance and retreat of the waves. For ‘procurrens’ Rom. and two of Ribbeck's cursives have ‘procumbens,’ while in Pal. the ‘rr’ of ‘procurrens’ is written over an erasure: but though ‘procumbens’ would not be inappropriate (Ribbeck appositely refers to G. 3. 240), the other seems better. ‘Procurrens alterno gurgite’ seems to mean advancing alternately, i. e. advancing and retreating by turns.
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