Ingredior, sanctos ausus recludere fontes,
Ascraeumque cano Romana per oppida carmen.
Vergil, Georg. ii. 155-176.
158 mare quod supra alluit = the mare superum = the Adriatic.
mare quod infra alluit = the mare inferum = the Tuscan or Tyrrhenian (Τυρῥηνός = Tuscan) sea.
159 Lari = Lake Larius (= Como), N. of Milan.
160 Benace = Lake Benacus (= Garda), W. of Verona.
fremitu marino = with roar as of the sea.
168 adsuetum malo = trained in hardship.—Mackail.
Volscosque verutos = and the Volscian spearmen (light infantry). verutos = armed with the verutum (or veru = lit. a spit), a javelin.