[671] It is not clear whether ‘haec inter’ is meant to be taken strictly, as if the sea were represented as winding among the other seenes, or whether all that is intended is that the sea came in along with the other representations. In Il. 18. 607, 608 the ocean river runs round the shield as a kind of border, but no action is represented as taking place there. ‘Late’ may go either with ‘tumidi’ or with ‘ibat.’ ‘Ire’ of continnous extension 5. 558.
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