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[8] plenus aranearum: denoting utter abandonment and emptiness; cf. Catul. 68.49; Pl. Aul. 83nam hic apud nos nihil est aliud quaesti furibus; ita inaniis sunt oppletae atque araneis” ; and more precisely Afran. 412 R. tamne arcula tua plena est aranearum? R. Browning, Ring and Book 5.49when the purse he left held spider-webs.


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