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[42] A description, as Henry rightly takes it, not of the temple but of the adytum, which, as at Delphi, was a cavern in the rock. ‘Euboicae rupis,’ the rock or hill of Cumae: see on v. 9. ‘Latus rupis excisum in antrum’ is a variety, as Heyne observes, for “antrum excisum in latere rupis.”

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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