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[99] Ambages is applied by Ov. M. 7. 761 to the riddle of the Sphinx, and is more than once used by Tac. in speaking of oracles: see Forc. ‘Remugit’ is explained by ‘antro,’ the cave echoing the scarcely human sounds (comp. 3. 92, where the ‘cortina’ is said ‘mugire’) which the Sibyl utters.

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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