Commentary on line 705
Calor ossa reliquit 3. 308 of
fainting. In ventos recessit 5. 526.
Vitam dispergit in auras 11. 617.
Additional note on v. 257.] As neither
Heins., Heyne, nor Ribbeck specifies
any MS. as containing the ordinary
reading Litus arenosum Libyae, I have
examined ten of the Bodleian MSS., the
same which I examined in reference to 5.
573 (see the Preface). Five of them read
ac Libyae, four Libyae, one ad Libyae.
Those which read Libyae are numbered
respectively Auct. A. A. 1 (first half of
15th century), Auct. B. B. 1 (14th century),
Auct. B. B. 2 (? apparently late),
and Auct. F. 2. 5 (middle of 15th century).
In A. A. 1 and B. B. 2 ac is written
above the line. In F. 2. 5 ventoque
appears for ventosque, there being a
blank space where s has been erased.
In B. B. 2 volabat is written apparently
by the same hand as the rest of the line,
but at a later time, as if a blank space had
been originally left and afterwards filled
in. In A. A. 1 and B. B. 2 v. 257 precedes
v. 256, but the order is corrected in
the margin. The inverted order is also
found in the text of one of the other MSS.
which I examined, and in the margin of
another. It appears then that the reading
Libyae, like Trinacriis 5. 573 is at any
rate prior to the invention of printing, so
that it may have some better authority
than critical conjecture.
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