[534] Tenuem vitam: comp. G. 4. 224. “Intercludere” is more common in the sense of cutting off than ‘includere’ but several instances of the latter are given in Forc. These particular descriptions of wounds are, of course, in imitation of Hom., though it is a mitigated imitation.
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