Note 30 — A. PERSIUS FLACCUS
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de puppe dii: Paintings of the gods. Comp. Verg., Aen., 10, 171: aurato fulgebat Apolline puppis. The gods may have been Castor and Pollux, no unlikely ‘sign,’ Acts, 28, 11. Ingentes implies the size of the ship and the magnitude of the loss (Jahn). See note on trabe vasta, 5, 141.—obvia mergis: Jahn comp. Hor., Epod., 10, 21: opima quod si praeda eurvo litore | porrecta mergos iuveris. Any large sea-bird will answer, such as ‘cormorant.’