[658] Centum—Hydram, ἓν διὰ δυοῖν rather awkwardly expressed, as it would seem at first sight that the ‘angues’ and the ‘serpentes’ were different. Virg., as Cerda and others have remarked, imitates Eur. Phoen. 1134 foll.:
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