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“As well, the instances of minus cited by Gronovius do not in fact illustrate this passage.” Ovid, The Last Poems of Ovid · observation
The editor comments on the opening of Catiline’s letter, debates manuscript readings, and interprets phrases about innocence, defense, and swearing oaths (“diius fidius”).
the kindness, etc.--_Ea, mansuetudine atque misericordia senatum populumque Romanum, semper fuisse._ "That the senate, etc., had always been of such kindness." I have deserted the Latin for the English idiom. [171] XXXV. The commencement of this letter is different in different editions. In Havercamp it stands thus: _Egregiatua fides, re cognita, grata mihi, magnis in meis periculis, fiduciam commendationi meae trib…
Further editorial notes interpret Sallust’s descriptions of a siege site, military ranks, troop movements, and local geography (e.g., Suthul), including definitions of engineering terms and manuscript variants.
thinking, I suppose, that in such a position it could hardly be Sallust's; but the verb requires a nominative case to prevent it from being referred to the following *vigiliae*. [153] Foreign wine--*Vino advectitio* Imported. Africa does not abound in wine. [154] XLV. With regard to other things--Caeteris. Cortius, whom Gerlach follows, considers this word as referring to the men or officers; but Kritzius and Diets…
The passage explains rules for rendering proper names from Polo’s manuscripts into English, choosing readings close to reconstructed original forms and standardizing Chinese suffixes like “-giu.”
For let me tell you that since our Lord God did mould with his hands our first Father Adam, even until this day, never hath there been Christian, or Pagan, or Tartar, or Indian, or any man of any nation, who in his own person hath had so much knowledge and experience of the divers parts of the World and its Wonders as hath had this Messer Marco! And for that reason he bethought himself that it would be a very great p…
The notes argue the Arbre Sec/Arbre Sol is best identified with the chinar (oriental plane) and analyze variant names across manuscript traditions, supporting the identification with botanical descriptions and related legends about Alexander.
that it is desert throughout, and it is practically certain that Marco ended these unpleasant experiences at Tabas, 150 miles from Kubenán. To-day the district is known as Tun-o-Tabas, Káin being independent of it.”—H. C.] NOTE 2.—This is another subject on which a long and somewhat discursive note is inevitable. One of the Bulletins of the Soc. de Géographie (sér. III. tom. iii. p. 187) contains a perfec…
The editor debates the intended geography and route between Si-ngan fu and Ch’êng-tu, focusing on how to interpret “Acbalec Manzi” and arguing the usual route should go via Han-chung despite manuscript variants.
So far then, provided we admit the reading of the MS. C, there is no ground for hesitating to adopt the usual route between the two cities, *viâ* Han-chung. But the key to the exact route is evidently the position of Acbalec Manzi, and on this there is no satisfactory light. For the name of the province, Pauthier’s text has *Acbalec Manzi*, for the name of the city *Acmalec* simply. The G. T. has in the forme…
The passage reports a dating debate over events in Arabia and Nabataea (Obodas’s death, Aeneas/Aretas’s succession) and then shifts to geographical commentary on routes, distances, and manuscript variants and comparisons, including Elijah/John the Baptist and Homeric references.
former times, the greater part of the perfumes collected in Hadramaut and Seger. But this harbour is about the middle, and not at the extremity of the cinnamon-bearing country. *Gossellin.* [782] Cardinal Noris places these facts in the year of Rome 730, and quotes, besides Strabo, the historian Josephus. In following the last author, the Cardinal places the death of Obodas in the prefecture of C. Sentius Saturninus…
The section’s notes discuss manuscript and distance corrections, the identity and positions of various African towns and rivers near Napata and Meroë, and provide interpretive comments on specific natural phenomena and plants.
[888] Kramer considers the passage between brackets to be an interpolation, as the same sense is conveyed in the passage which immediately follows. [889] The number here given is nearly twice too great. Kramer quotes G. Parthey (de Philis insula) for correcting the error to 50 stadia, and for perceiving that it arose from the very frequent substitution in manuscripts of the letter P (100) for N (50). [890] Unhewn s…
The introduction addresses social/ceremonial etiquette and manuscript variants, debating where men and women go during feasts, identifying foreign champions with Burgundians, and tracing disputed sequencing of stanzas.
See the note to St. LXXXI, Tenth Adventure. (St. XXXI.) There is a difficulty here from its being said that the young margravine was desired to go to court, *i.e.*, to the assembly in the hall, when at St. XXIV the ladies (*die schönen* in the original) had already returned thither. Lachmann removes the difficulty by condemning the stanzas XXXI, XXXII, XXXIV as spurious; he thinks it impossible that anyone can colle…
This passage contains only translator/editor notes giving alternative manuscript readings and disputed meanings for individual Greek phrases, without adding new narrative or claims.
1301 [ Lit. "nor is he present who will excuse thee."] 14 [ Lit. "my youth boiled over."] 15 [ Lit. "words more unseemly than was right."] 16 [ {all oude tauta esti o pai theia}.] 17 [ {peplanesthai}.] 18 [ {autai}: a correction of {autai}.] 19 [ {se de epiphoitesei}: the better MSS. have {oude epiphoitesei}, which is adopted by Stein.] 20 [ {pempto de etei anomeno}.] 21 [ {ton Ionion}.] 22 [ {kai oud ei epe…
The commentary argues over reconstructed readings for Ovid’s line ending (e.g., quaque/uia and uide/vale), discusses manuscript evidence, and comments on the oddness of a ‘ford’ image within the metaphor.
6 '*quaque* meos *adeas* est *uia* nulla modos' and *Fast* I 431-32 (Priapus approaches the sleeping nymph Lotis) 'a pedibus tracto uelamine *uota* / *ad sua felici coeperat ire uia*'. Before Professor E. Fantham brought this passage to my attention, I had thought that *M*'s *quoque uiam facias ad mea uota modo* was correct. *Modo* is weak and does not fit well with the preceding *qua ... parte*, but at least is acc…
Further philological notes explain meanings of exile-related phrases (e.g., utcumque), manuscript variants, and the poet’s implied comparisons with later Styx/Tartarus imagery and commercial language.
=27. PAREM VIRTVTE PATRI.= Compare *EP* II viii 31-32 (to Augustus, about Tiberius) 'perque tibi *similem uirtutis imagine* natum, / moribus agnosci qui tuus esse potest'. =27-28. FRENA ... IMPERII.= The same metaphor at *Tr* II 41-42 'nec te quisquam moderatius umquam / *imperii* potuit *frena* tenere sui', *EP* II ix 33 'Caesar ut *imperii* moderetur *frena* precamur', and *EP* II v 75 (of Germanicus) 'succedatque…
The editor reviews competing manuscript readings of Ovid’s poem, arguing that restoring the word minus weakens the poem, and concludes with reluctant acceptance of an emended phrase plus notes for a fictional detractor.
secondary reading in *F* and in the thirteenth-century *Barberinus lat. 26*; the reading of most manuscripts is MINVS, which seems to me impossible. Several explanations of *minus* have been advanced: (i) Gronovius took the line to mean 'tuus sum, immo mancipium tuum, nisi quod sola libra et aes mea mancipatione abfuerunt'. This retention of *minus*, however, involves Ovid in a qualifying retraction just when he see…