[730] The description of the mantle of Jason is an imitation of the description of the shield of Achilles and the devices thereon. Il. 18. 478-608. Catullus is indebted to our poet in his account of the embroidered coverlet (64. 50 sqq.).
Lines 730 sqq. are imitated by Virg.,“Ferrum exercebant vasto Cyclopes in antro ...
His informatum manibus iam parte polita
Fulmen erat, toto Genitor quae plurima caelo
Deicit in terras, pars imperfecta manebat.
Tris imbris torti radios, tris nubis aquosae
Addiderant, rutili tris ignis et alitis Austri.
Fulgores nunc terrificos sonitumque metumque
Miscebant operi flammisque sequacibus iras.
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