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John Conington, Commentary on Vergil's Aeneid, Volume 1, P. VERGILI MARONIS, line 427 (search)
In limine primo, alluding to
the Roman custom of burying new-born
infants in suggrundis, under the eaves
of the house, as has been pointed out by
a writer in the Saturday Review, Sept.
25, 1858, art. on Gladstone's Homeric
Studies. Here of course it is the threshold
of Orcus that is spoken of. Wakef., whom
Ribbeck follows, ingeniously punctuated
after flentes, connecting in limine
primo with vitae, which he separated
from exsortis—an arrangement supported
by Lucan 2. 106, quoted by Cerda,
nec primo in limine vitae Infantis miseri
nascentia rumpere fata, but on the whole
repudiated by the present passage, even
independently of the reviewer's illustration.
Plato deals very summarily with
these infants in the vision of Er, Rep. 10,
p. 615 c, tw=n de\ eu)qu\s genome/nwn [a)poqano/ntwn]
kai\ o)li/gon xro/non biou/ntwn pe/ri a)/lla
e)/legen ou)k a)/cia mnh/mhs