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[241] summa ex arce: i.e. from the Acropolis, whence he would have an unimpeded view over the sea southward. This form of the story is followed also by Diod. 4.61.7 and Paus. 1.22.5; but another form makes the promontory of Sunium the place whence Aegeus watched for the return of the ship, on descrying which he threw himself into the thence-named Aegean Sea; cf.

“ linquitur Eois longe speculabile proris
Sunion, unde vagi casurum in nomina ponti
Cresia decepit falso ratis Aegea velo

”
Stat. Theb. 12.624ff.

Catullus. Catullus. E. T. Merrill. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1893.

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