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[3] Some have thought ‘fumat’ could stand for “fumavit,” which is of course impossible. Comp. 5. 57 note. There is force in the present, as Serv. remarks, the smoke being conceived of as continuing after the overthrow. So Aesch. Ag. 818 foll.: “καπνῷ δ᾽ ἁλοῦσα νῦν ἔτ᾽ εὔσημος πόλις: ἄτης θυηλαὶ ζῶσι, συνθνήσκουσα δὲ σποδὸς προπέμπει πίονας πλούτου πνοάς.
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Humo, from the ground, expressing total overthrow.

John Conington. P. Vergili Maronis opera. P. Vergili Maronis Opera. The works of Virgil, with a Commentary by John Conington, M.A. Late Corpus Professor of Latin in the University of Oxford. London. Whittaker and Co., Ave Maria Lane. 1876.

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