Commentary Purg XII 58-60 |
A victim of Hebrew decapitation at the hands of Judith was the Assyrian general Holofernes (see Iudit. 13.1-13). 'The leavings of that slaughter' are evidently the members of his decapitated body.
This last pair of classical/biblical parallels is painfully exact, with vainglorious military males opposed by skillful women who cut their heads off.