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trahor, ‘am haled away,’ ‘am borne to distant exile.’ The word is associated not necessarily with violence, but rather with distance and difficulty (whence it passes naturally to the sense of ‘draw out,’ ‘prolong,’ as in IX. 767, “nunc ficto languore moram trahit”). Cf. VII. 66, “nempe tenens quod amo, gremioque in Iasonis haerens, per freta longa trahar”, VIII. 141, “insequar invitum, puppimque amplexa recurvam per freta longa trahar”. So Hor. C. I. xv. 1, “pastor cum traheret per freta navibus Idaeis Helenen”.
Charles Simmons. Metamorphoseon XIII. xiv. The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books XIII. and XIV. Edited, with introduction, analysis, and notes by Charles Simmons. New York. Macmillan. 1899.
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