Gorgona, desecto vertentem lumina collo.
170 genetrix turrita, i.e. Cybele, the goddess of settled life.
171 Epidaurius hospes, i.e. Asclepius (Aesculapius), who had a famous temple at Epidaurus (in Argolis), whence his worship was introduced into Rome to avert a pestilence 293 B.C.
172 reptavit placido tractu = came gently gliding on his voyage. Jebb.—For reptavit cf. repo, ἕρπω, and our creep.
173 Paeonium draconem = the serpent of the healer. Cf. Παιών.
‘QUOD CUNCTI GENS UNA SUMUS.’ —CLAUDIAN.
Vis dicam, quae causa tuos, Romane, labores
In tantum extulerit, quis gloria fotibus aucta
Sic cluat, impositis ut mundum frenet habenis?