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aratrum: After destroying a city the victors plowed the site to indicate its total annihilation. Propert. 4. 8. 41, moenia cum Graio Neptunia pressit aratro | Victor; Jeremiah 26. 18, 'Zion shall be plowed like a field'; Young and Burns, 'Ruin's plowshare.'—ex||ercitus: note caesura.—insolens: in the pride of victory. Cf. on 1. 5. 8; Epod. 16. 14.


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