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“The story of Croesus' downfall and the subsequent sparing of his life by Cyrus is taken from Herodotus I 86-88.” Ovid, The Last Poems of Ovid · observation
Notes cover Strabo’s information about India and the ‘Seres,’ silk and wool sources, debates on corrupt readings, and comparisons of distances and magnitudes attributed to Megasthenes.
error in the text. Groskurd reads 20; but Kramer refers to Arrian’s expedition of Alexander, v. 20, and suggests that we may here read 100 (ρ) instead of 200 (σ). [376] The Seres are here meant, whose country and capital still preserve the name of Serhend. It was the Serica India of the middle ages, and to this country Justinian sent to procure silkworms’ eggs, for the purpose of introducing them into Europe. Strabo…
An editor’s note gives a plausible reading for Mesopotamia as Commagene and argues that four parts described were formed by four hills inside Antioch’s circuit wall.
We ought probably to read Commagene. Groskurd proposes to read “Commagene, like Mesopotamia, consisted of one satrapy.” Groskurd’s emendation of the text is followed, although not approved of, by Kramer. [552] These four portions were no doubt formed by the four hills contained within the circuit of Antioch. The circuit wall existed in the time of Pococke. The detailed and exact description given of it by this learn…
Notes dispute later historians’ confusion over rulers’ reign lengths and names, including Porphyry’s dating of Antiochus Grypus and textual corrections identifying “Antiochus Plus.”
Who Ought To Have The Kingdom; And How Upon The Plight Of Aristobulus To The Fortress Alexandrium Pompey Led His Army Against Him And Ordered Him To Deliver Up The Fortresses Whereof He Was Possessed. 1. A Little afterward Pompey came to Damascus, and marched over Celesyria; at which time there came ambassadors to him from all Syria, and Egypt, and out of Judea also, for Aristobulus had sent him a great present, whi…
A commentary argues over manuscript readings for a line comparing Fortune to a wheel and possibly to toes or the wheel’s “maximum” point, citing parallels from Ovid and other Latin authors.
II 36) 'Fortunam insanam esse et caecam et brutam perhibent philosophi, / *saxoque* instare in *globoso* praedicant *uolubilei*'. Smith at Tib I v 70 gives numerous instances of both images. =32. QVEM=, found in Heinsius' *fragmentum Boxhornianum* (=Leid. Bibl. Publ. 180 G), must be right as against the QVAE of the other manuscripts; if a definition is to be given after the preceding 'haec dea non stabili quam sit l…
The editor continues detailed textual and interpretive notes for Vestalis, covering examples from classical literature, genealogical status claims, and the meaning of phrases about military action and praise.
=27. FLVMINEA ... VNDA.= *Flumineus* does not occur elsewhere in the *Tristia* or *Ex Ponto*; *fluminea ... aqua* at *Fast* II 46 & 596. =27. VITELLIVS.= This Vitellius is presumably one of the four sons of Publius Vitellius, grandfather of the emperor. Suetonius wrote of the sons, Aulus, Quintus, Publius, and Lucius, that they were 'quattuor filios amplissimae dignitatis cognomines ac tantum praenominibus distincto…
The translator defends his textual and stylistic decisions: he used Briggs’s edition, sometimes kept difficult readings, and preferred Greek proper names over Latinised forms like Jupiter for Zeus.
harder for an ordinary writer to evolve out of his own brain, than to construct any species of verse for which he has at least a model and a precedent. These remarks are made to shew that my metres were not selected, as it might appear, at hap-hazard. Metre is not so unimportant as to justify that. For the rest, I have used Briggs's edition[F] (_Poetæ Bucolici Græci_), and have never, that I am aware of, taken refug…