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Often appears with: uide vs uale/other readings · uado/ford imagery · manuscript variants · language, naming, and meaning · geography and the description of places
Usually: commentary or gloss (1) · curiosity (1) · skepticism (1)
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…