Note 668 — BOOK THE TWENTY-FIRST.
Theodore Alois Buckley translation · Edition 4
Footnote 668: (return) Virg. Æn. i. 118: “Apparent rari nantes in gurgite vasto.” With the following description may be compared Æsch. Ag. 670: Ὁρῶμεν ἀνθοῦν πέλαγος Αἰγαῖον νεκρῶν ἀνδρῶν Ἀχαίων ναυτικῶν τ' ἐρειπίων. Aristid. Panath. p. 142: Ὡς δὲ ἑώρα τὴν θάλατταν αἵματι καὶ ῥοθίῳ ῥέουσαν, καὶ πάντα νέκρων καὶ ναυαγίων μεστά.