[455] Artificum manus inter se, ‘the skill of the rival artists,’ which he compares together. One or two MSS. have ‘intra se,’ whence Ribbeck needlessly and unpoetically conjectures ‘intrans.’ ‘Manus’ of skill 12. 210, as elsewhere of strength. ‘Operumque laborem’ probably refers to the magnitude of work rather than to the elaborate detail. Comp. G. 2. 155, “Adde tot egregias urbes operumque laborem.”
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