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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 February 2009
Mr. Garrod has earned the gratitude of all students of Manilius by his detection of the ratio of the series in iii. 599–615, and he is fully justified in his contention that tricenas in 612 is ‘one of the few emendations which can be proved mathematically.’ I owe him a special acknowledgment, inasmuch as his discovery enables me to add one more to the list and affords me an opportunity of establishing what was correct and correcting what was erroneous in my discussion of the whole passage (590–617) in Silua Maniliana, pp. 30 sqq. Let me do the last first. My suggestion of uix for bis in 616 of course disappears; bis sex is required by the series: and in 595–6 (of which more presently) the number meant is 75, not 76.
1 I fail to appreciate Friedlaender's difficulties about vi. 85. 7, 8: ‘heu qualis pietas, heu quam breuis occidit aetas! | niderat Alphei praemia quinta modo.’ It may be a question whether quarta should be read on the ground that the tradition varies between quinta, quanta and quinque: but quinta need involve no inconsistency in Martial's usage. Rufus Camonius had reached the age of 20 ‘creuerat hic uoltus bis denis fortior annis’ (ix. 76. 3). He died between the production of the fifth and the sixth book of the Epigrams vi. 85. 1,2: ‘Editur en sextus sine te mihi, Rufe Camoni, | nee te lectorem sperat, amice, liber,’ i.e. between A.D. 89 and 90. Now there was an Olympian festival in 89, and, reckoning incluquinta, sively, it would be the fifth quinquennial celebration from that in 69. This we may take as the year of Rufus’ birth, so that he would not have been 21 till 90 when book vi. was published.