praetexit

Updated: July 31, 2026

Virgil had that love of rivers which, I think, a poet is rarely without; and it did not need Greece to teach him to sing of the fields: Propter aquam, tardis ingens ubi flexibus Mincius et tenera praetexit arundine ripas. "By the water-side, where mighty Mincius wanders, with links and loops, and fringes all the banks with the tender reed."

Andrew Lang - Letters on Literature