Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 February 2009
I have not read the Thebais more than three times, nor ever with intent care and interest; and although in putting these notes together I have consulted a large number of editions—Bernartius, Tiliobroga, Geuartius, Cruceus, Gronouius, Barthius, Veenhusen, Beraldus (Delphin), ed. Bipontina, Lemaire (with Amar), Queck, O. Mueller (books I-VI), Kohlmann, Wilkins, Garrod, Klotz, and the translations of Marolles, Nisard, and Mozley (Loeb)—it may well be that profitable matter has escaped me and that some of my comments have been made before.
page 1 note l In I 246 f. ‘neque enim arcano de pectore fallax | Tantalus… periit’ Baehrens proposed arcani, ‘quod qnominus ad fallax referamus, impedimur collocatione uerborum’ says Mr Klotz. One may steal a horse while another may not look over the hedge.
page 2 note 1 Mr Klotz's kindly willingness to explain what he does not understand is less of a help than a hindrance. Examples follow at II 637 f. and IV 2 f.; and there are others at II 327, IV 318, V 702 (the most amazing of all), IX 19.
page 4 note 1 Wernsdorf proposes a change; Sudhaus imagines the expression to be a personification characteristic of ‘our Stoic author’, and is so completely at a loss for a parallel that he compares Iuu. X 193–5 ‘rugas, | quales… in uetula scalpit iam mater simia bucca’.
page 8 note 1 anhela with tollit is not, as the scholiast says, ‘aestuosa’, but pictures the day panting up the steep of heaven.
page 8 note 2 Lucan's errors in this department, though not so many as Scaliger made them out to be, are sometimes monstrous, and one of them (X 210–8) involves the dogstar.
page 9 note 1 Mr Klotz, with the old editors, reads dominumue, against the best MS; Mueller, Kohlmann, Wilkins, and Garrod are right.
page 12 note 1 What I then said against his explanation of Ovid's BeῙides and Lycurgῑdes was afterwards confirmed by the emergence of κοδρείδης and λαγειδης from papyri of Callimachus.
page 14 note 1 I do not add his punctuation of silu. II i 129, which, though equally vicious, had more excuse until I analysed the sentence in Class. Rev. 1906 p. 41.
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