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468 Apollon and Artemis
Maiandros ; reeds grow tallest in the Boeotian Asopos ; and the ftersem-trtt
loves no water but the water of the Nile. Similarly with regard to the white-
poplar, the poplar, and the wild-olive, it was natural enough for the white-poplar
to grow first on the banks of the Acheron, for the wild-olive to do the same on
the banks of the Alpheios, and for the poplar to be nurtured by the land of the
Keltoi and the Celtic Eridanos.'
Fig. 363.
The interpolator of Servius' commentary on Virgil has preserved
a more romantic version1. Leuke, the daughter of Okeanos, was
loved by Plouton and carried off to the Underworld, where she spent
1 Interp. Serv. in Verg. eel. 7. 61 (probably derived from the commentary of Aelius
Donatus).
Maiandros ; reeds grow tallest in the Boeotian Asopos ; and the ftersem-trtt
loves no water but the water of the Nile. Similarly with regard to the white-
poplar, the poplar, and the wild-olive, it was natural enough for the white-poplar
to grow first on the banks of the Acheron, for the wild-olive to do the same on
the banks of the Alpheios, and for the poplar to be nurtured by the land of the
Keltoi and the Celtic Eridanos.'
Fig. 363.
The interpolator of Servius' commentary on Virgil has preserved
a more romantic version1. Leuke, the daughter of Okeanos, was
loved by Plouton and carried off to the Underworld, where she spent
1 Interp. Serv. in Verg. eel. 7. 61 (probably derived from the commentary of Aelius
Donatus).