^{page 48 note 2} It is difficult, after all these siue's, to resist Bentley's uacuisue for uacuisque.

^{page 50 note 1} Moricca disapproves of Leo's laetum on the strange ground that it ‘male s'accorda con remigem’. Is there no joy in rowing (especially rowing home)?

^{page 50 note 2} See also 1. 513, where there is no cause to reject exilium for the Aldine's exitium, as many editors do.

^{page 50 note 3} Herrmann is wrong in ascribing inuitam to the manuscripts.

^{page 50 note 4} See Housman, , C.Q. xvii (1993), 170.Google Scholar

^{page 51 note 1} At Stat. Theb. 8. 546 namus is commonly translated ‘foliage’; but ulmus quaerit utrumque nemus there cannot mean ‘the elm misses the foliage’ of itself and its vine, as Mr. Sandbach points out to me, because the elm still has its own and its vine's foliage with it, though now fallen upon the ground. Tr: ‘the elm misses the wood’ (of elms and vim in which it stood before it fell). At Ov. M 8. 743 nemus means ‘a wood’ (pace Friedlaender on Mart. 9. 61. 9: una nemus thei means ‘in itself a wood’).