Note 002
___Alii per terga ferocis
Danubi solidata ruunt; expertaque remos
Frangunt stagna rotis.
[Claud. ib. v. 24.]
Claudian and Ovid often amuse their fancy by interchanging the metaphors and properties of liquid water and solid ice. Much false wit has been expended in this easy exercise.
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