Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 October 2009
1 My note on Rud. 1365 should be corrected in this sense. But Gagnér is not aware that when I wrote it (1891) the disyllabic scansion held the field, as shown by Fleckeisen's reading of Ter. Eun. 67, 411 (based on Bentley), and Schoell's of Most. 720. The purpose of my note was to assert (for the first time) the trisyllabic scansion; yet Gagnér stones me and Lindsay, who followed my lead! The word occurs only six times in Plautus and Terence. To my examples add Stich. 250 Ego illó mehércle, etc.
2 I heartily accept hiatus at this point of the verse, when there is anything like a pause to justify it.
3 Gagnér does not believe in hercl' (p. 58).