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, reconmaends sordida, i. E. Madefacta sanguine belli, to restore the meter. 99. Nutritos sanguine fruges: this unpleasant idea was a famihar one to the ancients. Cf. Verg. , Ge. , I, 491 f. Ov. , Her. , I, 1, 53 f. : iam seges est ubi Troia fuit, resecandaque falce luxuriat Phrygio sanguine pinguis humus. Plut. , Marius, 21. Serv. , ad Aen. , XII, 119. 100. This line consists of two Vergilian hemistichs. Cf. Verg. , Aen. , II, 790 ; VI, 628 ; VII, 323 ; XII, 81 ; 441 ; VIII, 164 ; and I, 408. ...Petr. , Ch. 61, 5. For similar expressions, cf. Verg. , Aen. , I, 408. Ov. , Met. , VI, 447 f. Livy, III, 61, 7 ; VII, 33, 11. The hand-clasp was intended as the pledge of their compact. 101. Dis apparently fails to clasp the hand of For- tuna, but the effort opens a new fissure in the ground where the interview is taking place. His failure is Commentary 161 probably due to the fickle and elusive character of the goddess, who slips from his grasp as ghosts from the hands of men (of. II. , XXIII, 99 f.
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