[267] It would perhaps be unjust to an expression like ‘extinctos faucibus ignes’ to say that it was for “fauces extinctis ignibus” or “fauces ubi ignes extincti< erant;” for Virg.'s words give the idea of the fires that had been there more vividly than the common expression.
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