[835] Caesar, B. C. 3. 98, “Caesar omnes eos . . . in planiciem descendere atque arma proiicere iussit.” ‘Meus’ nom. for voc., which perhaps was thought too familiar and colloquial. It gives a slight difference to the meaning, as Forb. remarks, making the words parallel to ‘genus qui ducis Olympo,’ and assigning a reason for forbearance. Rufinianus 265 R, citing the passage, reads ‘sanguis pius,’ which Heyne rather approves. One MS., the first Hamburg, supplements the line with the words ‘esse memento.’
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