[196] For ‘foribus superbis’ Forb. quotes 2. 504, “Barbarico postes auro spoliisque superbi,” and v. 721 below, “Dona recognoscit populorum aptatque superbis Postibus.” ‘Superbis’ is thus an epithet both of the gate and of its owner: ‘fixed by him in triumph to his gate.’ Heyne takes ‘superbis’ as cruel. Comp. Manil. 4. 180, where the following lines afford a grotesque illustration of this whole passage, hunters who hang up skins and butchers who hang up meat being classed together as born under the sign of the Lion.
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