[52] fluentisono: ἅπαξ λεγόμενον, though fluctisonus and undisonus are found in post-Augustan poets. The word has reference to the crash of breakers upon a rock-bound coast, perhaps here to point the impossibility of escape; v. 121 spumosa ad litora Diae and the more neutral epithet used by Hom. Od. 11.325 “Δίῃ ἐν ἀμφιρύτῃ” .
Catullus. Catullus. E. T. Merrill. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1893.
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