Entry lacking, Adler reports, in mss AF, and placed earlier in V.
The headword phrase, in the nominative plural, is presumably quoted from somewhere. It occurs in the Enarratio in Prophetam Isaiam attributed to Basil of Caesarea 8.218.16 (Trevisan); cf. Gregory of Nyssa, De tridui inter mortem et resurrectionem domini nostri Jesu Christi spatio 9.280.8 (Gebhardt), referring to death.
For the Iron Gate of the River Danube, see kappa 745.