[365] λειῷ ἐπὶ πλαταμῶνι: 'on a smooth flat ledge.' The phrase is taken from h. Hom. Merc. 128.
τὸν … ἅλμη: 'against which the sea does not beat with its waves, but, at times, the stormy brine washes over it.' In a calm the sea does not reach the πλαταμών, in a storm the waves dash over it; cf.“Est procul in pelago saxum spumantia contra
Litora quod tumidis submersum tunditur olim (πάλαι）
Fluctibus, hiberni condunt ubi sidera Cori;
Tranquillo silet immotaque attolliturunda, etc.
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