[Footnote 70: - Emesae fastigia celsa renident. Nam diffusa
solo latus explicat; ac subit auras Turribus in coelum
nitentibus: incola claris Cor studiis acuit ... Denique
flammicomo devoti pectora soli Vitam agitant. Libanus
frondosa cacumina turget. Et tamen his certant celsi
fastigia templi.
These verses of the Latin version of Rufus Avienus are
wanting in the Greek original of Dionysius; and since they
are likewise unnoticed by Eustathius, I must, with
Fabricius, (Bibliot. Latin. tom. iii. p. 153, edit.
Ernesti,) and against Salmasius, (ad Vopiscum, p. 366, 367,
in Hist. August.,) ascribed them to the fancy, rather than
the Mss., of Avienus.]