[887] Aeris with ‘campis,’ not, as Forb., following Ruhkopf, thinks, with ‘regione.’ W. Ribbeck cites Auson. Cupido Crucifixus v. 1, “Aeris in campis, memorat quos Musa Maronis.” It seems to be a general expression for the place of the dead, “the shadowy plains,” ‘aer’ probably including the notion of mist as well as of air. Elsewhere Elysium has aether and light, as the rest of the infernal regions have darkness: here a neutral word is chosen. Stat. Silv. 5. 3. 286 seems to have taken it exclusively of the Elysian fields, “Et monstrate nemus, quo nulla inrupit Erinys, In quo falsa dies caeloque simillimus aer.”
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