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Virgil's Idea of the Tiber

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

W. Warde Fowler
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The Classical Review , Volume 30 , Issue 8 , December 1916 , pp. 219 - 222
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1916

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1 Virgil's interest in the passage is strongly suggested by his expression ‘caput urbibus’ in line 65, formed on Lucretius' ‘caput amnibus’. See below.

2 This he expresses more clearly when explaining earthquakes in vi. 533 ff.

3 Servius in a curious note says that this idea comes from Egyptian sacred books.