[771] A comParison of 3. 467, “Loricam consertam hamis auroque trilicem,” would tend to show that ‘auro conserta’ here refers to the joining of the scales or chain-work; but it is difficult to see how this could be reconciled with ‘aenis,’ so that Heyne is probably right in supposing the reference to be to the golden buckles which fastened the cloth to the horse. ‘Auroque inserta’ was read by some early edd., and is found in the Balliol MS. ‘In plumam’ then will qualify ‘squamis,’ as if it were “squamis in pluman connexis.”
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