Note 455 — BOOK THE FOURTEENTH.
Theodore Alois Buckley translation · Edition 4
Footnote 455: (return) 'Αβρότη is akin to ἤμβροτον from άμαρτάνω, and therefore = “making mortals go astray,” or else = άμβροσιη in ii. 57. See Buttm. Lexil. p. 82. Or it may be regarded as the “nox intempesta,” i.e. “muita nox, qua nihil agi tempestivum est,” Censorinus de Die Nat. xxiv.