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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 February 2009
In his elegiacs Ovid did not permit the elision of the final syllable of an iambic word ‘in an arsis (as Palmer on Her. l.c. expresses it), i.e. first syllable of dactyl or spondee.’ See L. Müller, De re metrica, ed. 2, p. 341. These two are the only lines in which this rule is transgressed, for in Trist. II. 296, which used to appear as
stat Venus Vltori iuncta, uir ante fores
was brilliantly restored conjecturally by Bentley, and has since been found to be the actual reading of our best manuscript, the Marcianus. The soundness of the text in the two lines obelized above is still open to question.
page 224 note 1 This emendation has already been made by J. van Wageningen in his text of Manilius, published in 1915 in the Teubner series; but it seemed desirable to publish the reasoning by which Mr. Owen has reached it independently. –EDD. C.Q.