_Virgil._--Æneid, viii. 96.:
"Viridesque secant placido æquore silvas."
Will any of your classical correspondents favour me with their opinion
as to whether _secant_ in the above passage is intended to convey, or is
capable of conveying, the idea expressed in the following line of
Tennyson (_Recollections of the Arabian Nights_):
---- "my shallop ... clove
The citron _shadows_ in the blue?"
This interpretation has been suggested to me as more poetical than the
one usually given; but it is only supported by one commentator, Servius.