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[204] Serv. says that after this verse the following lines were found enclosed in brackets or placed in the margin— ‘Hinc Pelopis gentes Maleaeque sonantia saxa
Circumstant, pariterque undae terraeque minantur:
Pulsamur saevis et circumsistimur undis.
’

The locality may be correctly given, as the storm is supposed to have arisen about the promontory of Malea (see 5. 193): but the lines, even if intrinsically worthy of the poet, would be inconsistent with the context, which tells us expressly that they did not know where they were, and that land was not seen till the fourth day.

John Conington. P. Vergili Maronis opera. P. Vergili Maronis Opera. The works of Virgil, with a Commentary by John Conington, M.A. Late Corpus Professor of Latin in the University of Oxford. London. Whittaker and Co., Ave Maria Lane. 1876.

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