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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 February 2009
Critics, once so busy with Manilius, have left him alone since Housman's edition was completed a quarter of a century ago. Perhaps I shall seem rash to break the silence by challenging a few of his verdicts. I do so in no spirit of iconoclasm, but rather believing that Housman wrote for readers who will occasionally call him wrong—at their peril, and on their knees.
page 81 note 1 Effort has revived of late: G. P. Goold writes on the MSS. in Rhein. Mus. (1954), pp. 359–72Google Scholar and Waszink, J. H. has some observations on Book I in Ut Pictura Poesis (Leiden, 1955), pp. 204–14.Google Scholar
page 83 note 1 Lucretius has atque quietem (3. 910) and Sidonius, in hendecasyllabics, atque quartus (23. 380). There are two dubious instances in Plautus, Merc. 742, Pseud. 727. In prose the phenomenon is rare but not, as Lewis and Short assert, unknown; cf. Cic. Verr. 2. 5. 157 a. querimoniam, Leg. Agr. 2. 90 a. qui, De Dom. 144 a. quaeso, De Diu. 1. 92 a. quaestum, Val. Max. 4. 8. 3. a. quinquagies, Vitr. 6. 6. 1 a. quot, Plin. N.H. 22. 94 a. qui, Cels. 2. 10. 19 a. quod, Solin. 30. 8 a. quadripedes.
page 84 note 1 I take this from Housman's addenda, ad loc.
page 85 note 1 See Propertiana (Cambridge, 1956), p. 211.Google Scholar
page 86 note 1 For a challenge to rabidique Leonis in 2. 211 and 5. 550 see Propertiana, p. 317.