[691] Alta petunt G. 1. 142. Here it must denote the representation of forward motion. The ships of Antony and Cleopatra were unusually large, Dion Cass. 50. 23. In 5. 119 a ship is compared to a city. Here the comParison to islands or mountains seems to be suggested partly by a recollection of the πλαγκταὶ νῆσοι or the Symplegades (referred to nearly in the same words by Ov. M. 7. 62, “nescio qui mediis concurrere in undis Dicuntur montes”), partly by the ‘vast Typhoean rage’ with which the giants flung mountains at the Gods. The violence of the motion seems to be the point of comParison as much as or more than the size. ‘Pelago’ with ‘innare.’
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