Commentary on line 2
Fato, a mixture of modal and instrum.
abl., as in 4. 696., 6. 449, 466, &c.
IIere it seems to go with profugus,
though it might go with venit: comp.
10. 67. Perhaps the force may be profugus
quidem, sed fato profugus, a glorious
and heaven-sent fugitive. So Livy
l. l., comp. by Weidner, Aenean ab simili
clade domo profugum sed ad maiora rerum
initia ducentibus fatis. For the poetic
accus. ItaliamLavina litora, without
the preposition, see Madv. 232, obs. 4.
The MSS. are divided between Lavinaque,
Laviniaque, and perhaps Lavinia.
The last, however, though adopted by
Burm. and Heyne, and approved by Heins.,
seems to rest solely on the authority of
Med., which has Lavinia (corrected into
Lavina), with a mark of erasure after the
word. Laviniaque is found in the Verona
fragm., and is supported by quotations in
Terentianus Maurus and Diomedes, and in
single MSS. of Priscian, Censorinus, and
Servius in artem Donati. Lavinaque is
found in Rom., Gud., and probably most
other MSS., and is supported by quotations
in Macrobius, Gellius, Marius Victorinus,
Pompeius, the Schol. on Lucan, most
MSS. of Priscian, and one of Censorinus.
Servius mentions both readings, saying,
Lavina legendum est, non Lavinia.
Lavinia is supported by 4. 236: but the
synizesis, though not unexampled (comp.
5. 269., 6. 33, and see on G. 4. 243), is
perhaps awkward, especially in the second
line of the poem, and the imitation in Prop. 3.
26. 64, Iactaque Lavinis moenia litoribus,
is in favour of the form Lavina. Juv.
12. 71 has novercali sedes praelata Lavino,
though there as in Prop. the quadrisyllabic
form might be introduced and
explained by synizesis. On the whole, I
have preferred Lavinaque, believing the
form to be possible in itself (comp. Campanus,
Lucanus, Appulus, &c.), and
more probable in this instance; the modern
editors however are generally for Laviniaque.
Lachmann on Lucr. 2.719 speaks
doubtfully. The epithet which belonged
to the place after the foundation of the
city by Aeneas is given to it here, as in 4.
236, by a natural anticipation at the time
of his landing.
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