[438] She is made to roll her eyes, though her head is severed. Wagn. comp. the animated figures made by Hephaestus Il. 18. 417 foll. Serv. gives a choice of two other explanations, turning the eyes of the beholders to stone, or turning their eyes from herself in horror. ‘Desecto collo,’ the neck having been severed, where we should say the head. So Hom. uses δειροτμεῖν. Rom. has ‘deiecto,’
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