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[139] Conceptum fudit seems i. q. “concepit et fudit,” both conception and birth being supposed to have taken place on Mount Cyllene. It is not clear why Virg. has added ‘gelido,’ which to modern notions seems incongruous. ‘Fudit’ of production G. 1. 13. Whether it was commonly used of human births does not appear. In Cic. Pis. ad init., “Quae te beluam ex utero non hominem fudit,” it has something of contempt, as is remarked by Serv., who thinks the word is chosen here to express easy parturition. Pal. originally had ‘fundit,’ which would agree with ‘generat.

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