"Viscera sic aliquis scopulus tua figat, ut olim
Fixa sub Euboico Graia fuere sinu,"
pierced and pinned down with a rock, at the bottom of the Eubœan gulf.
TURBINE. SCOPULO.—Not two instruments, a whirlwind and a rock, but one single instrument, a whirling rock; scopulo turbineo; in modo turbinis se circumagente; as if Virgil had said, Solo affixit illum correptum et transverberatum scopulo acuto in eum maxima vi rotato: or, more briefly, Turbine scopuli acuti corripuit et infixit. Compare:
"Præcipitem scopulo atque ingentis turbine saxi
Excutit effunditque solo."
Æn. XII. 531.
"Stupet obvia leto
Turba super stantem, atque emissi turbine montis
Obruitur."