"Plura cum auderet furens,
Tridente rupem subruit pulsam pater
Neptunus, imis exerens undis caput,
Solvitque montem; quem cadens secum tulit:
Terraque et igne victus et pelago jacet."
Agam. 552.
And, so also, beyond doubt, we are to understand Sidonius Apollinaris's—
"Fixusque Capharei
Cautibus, inter aquas flammam ructabat Oileus."
Not, with Wakefield and the other commentators, fixed on the rocks of Caphareus, but, pierced with the rocks of Caphareus, and lying under them. Compare (Æn. IX. 701.) "fixo pulmone," the pierced lung; "fixo cerebro" (Æn. XII. 537.); "verubus trementia figunt" (Æn. I. 216.), not, fix on the spits, but, stick or pierce with the spits; and especially (Ovid. Ibis. 341.),