Luxurians, luduntque jubae per colla, per armos.

[93] 'They watch, as when the consul is going to give the signal, all look eagerly to the barrier, to see how soon he may start the chariots from the painted entrance.'

[94]

Olli subridens hominum sator atque deorum

Voltu, quo caelum tempestatesque serenat.—Aen. i. 254.

[95] Ἔννιος Ῥωμαῖος ποιητής· ὃν Αἰλιανὸς ἐπαινεῖν ἄξιόν φησι.... δῆλον δὲ ὡς ἐτεθήπει τοῦ ποιητοῦ τὴν μεγαλόνοιαν καὶ τῶν μέτρων τὸ μεγαλεῖον καὶ ἀξιάγαστον.—Suidas, vol. i. p. 1258, ed. Gaisford.

[96] Cf. Iliad, xxiii. 114-120; and also Virgil, Aen. vi. 179:—

Itur in antiquam silvam, stabula alta ferarum,

Procumbunt piceae, sonat icta securibus ilex,

Fraxineaeque trabes cuneis et fissile robur