Birds, grandfathers, and neoteric sorcery in Aeneid 4.254 and 7.4121

Classical Quarterly 47 (01):314- (1997)
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On his way to convey Jupiter's rebuke to Aeneas, Mercury passes by his maternal grandfather Atlas, a mountain vividly personified as an old man with snowy beard/frozen rivers running down his chin . Here he pauses, then flings himself into the waves

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