Notes on Ovid's Tristia and Ex Ponto

Thus reads the ‘optimus Laurentianus,’ and starting hence we shall refuse claudent , the facile but incoherent correction of some MSS., and still more the claudunt which the majority offer. Nor for all that shall we make the ineptitude of these readings a ground for condemning the pentameter, which, save for its lack of grammatical construction, is perfectly faultless in expression. Turning our attention to the hexameter, we observe that Parca , a synonym for fata (Ex Pont . III. 7. 20 ‘ Parcaque ad extremum qua mea coepit eat’ by id . II. 7. 17 sq. ‘iam mihi fata liquet coeptos seruantia cursus | per sibi consuetas semper itura uias’) with traheb at will set everything right. The offending fata is due to a gloss or an unfortunate reminiscence

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