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Lucan I. 99–103

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

J. S. Phillimore
Affiliation:
Glasgow

Extract

Read thus the simile presents nothing eccentric. In ver. 101 Hosius and Lejay (in his excellent little edition of Book I., published by Klincksieck in 1894) read male separat, which not only common sense requires but codd. VUQ authorize: not so Mr. Haskins, who follows a multitude of codd. in offering mare separat. But a slight further correction is necessary: to read Aegaeon in 103 for the MS. Aegeo, ‘Withdraw the land, and Aegaean would smash Ionian Sea.’ Those who make Isthmos the subject of frangat cite Stat. Silu. IV. iii. 59:

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1919

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