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The use of such images of the impossible is common. Cf. XIV. 37-9, Ex Pont. IV. v. 41-4, Hor. C. I. xxxiii. 7-9, Epod.XVI. 25-34, Virg. Ecl.I. 59-63. Another way of using them may be seen in Virg. Ecl.VIII. 27-8, Hor. C. I. xxix. 10-6, Trist. I. viii. 1-8, where such impossibilities are declared to be possible after the occurrence of some surprising or unnatural event.

Charles Simmons. Metamorphoseon XIII. xiv. The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books XIII. and XIV. Edited, with introduction, analysis, and notes by Charles Simmons. New York. Macmillan. 1899.

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