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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 October 2009
1 Haupt preferred ‘orbis o piissimei’. Recently M. Saenger in a Russian periodical, while himself proposing ‘inclutissimei,’ cites from Th. Korsch ‘urbis o piissimei.’ Some such modification of Lachmann's conjecture may seem desirable.
1 The words ‘Mamurram,’ ‘vorax’ (bis), ‘comesset,’ ‘elluatus’ all prepare us for the hit in Lamum:—‘devorare’ drives the point home. Cf. also Ovid's ‘Laestrygonis impia tinxit ora cruore suo’ (Metam. XIV. 237). On these ‘Neptuni filii’ see Aul. Gellius, xv. 21.