^{page 44 note 1} In Seruius' notes on these passages Varus occurs 14 times and is never corrupted in any of Thilo's MSS to Varius: Varius occurs 5 times and is always corrupted to Varus in one or more MSS; and that though Seruius is inculcating the distinction.

^{page 45 note 1} Mr Garrod, when the fit is on him, thinks it likely that carmina aliqua means the most famous of Latin tragedies; and ‘in support of this view’ (p. 210) he cites the story of Donatus and Seruius that the Thyestes, though published under Varius' name, was composed by Virgil. In support of this view? Yes, so Mr Garrod says: these passages ‘furnish evidence that at an early date the ascription of the Thyestes to Varius was called in question’; and therefore it is likely that the carmina aliqua ascribed to Alfenus Varna were the Thyestes.

^{page 47 note 1} Mr Garrod admits this, but says, as if by way of defence, ‘we have already seen reason to suppose that in Vergil's first arrangement of the Eclogues it stood last’. We have seen it at p. 213: Philargyrius on VIII 6 says that Virgil speaks of Gallus in the last eclogue, ‘ultima ode’; and Mr Garrod, finding nothing about Gallus in the tenth eclogue, supposes that Philargyrius must have meant the eighth, in which I find a good deal less about Gallus.

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