[2] liquidas: not an otiose epithet, but indicating the unstable water as unfitted to support a heavy body; cf. Verg. A. 5.859 “liquidas proiecit in undas praecipitem” ; Nemes. Buc. 2.76 “nec tremulum liquidis lumen splenderet in undis.”
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