¹ Cf. e.g. among the phrases found only in his works αἰαῖ at Met. x. 215; Ὑ‘pars μ⋯ ναιɛ canunt, pars clamant Εὔιον ⋯υοῖ’ at A. A. i. 563, ‘αἴλινον in silvis idem pater αἴλινον altis,’ etc., at Am. iii. 9. 23. See also at Met. xii. 110. The proper names generally are so mishandled by the scribes that no app. crit. can find room for the corruptions they have suffered.

² Burmann (1727) ad loc. cites one from Propertius iv. 6. 67, and one from Tibullus i. 6. 25; Ehwald two from the Elegiac poems of Ovid (Trist. iii. 4. 27, Ex Pont. iv. 15. 6), but Elegiacs are nearer to prose, and admit licences which are denied to the Hexameter.

³ At Met. xv. 804 the ‘illa deum’ of Voss. Leidens. Q. 61 (saec. xiii.) points to ‘Iliaden’ as the true reading there. Cf. Class. Rev. 27. 257.