2. --------Alii per terga ferocis
Danubi solidata ruunt; expertaque remos
Frangunt stagna rotis.
[Claud. ib. v. 24.]
Claudian and Ovid often amuse their fancy by interchanging
the metaphors and properties of 'liquid' water and 'solid'
ice. Much false wit has been expended in this easy exercise.