[664] “Qui solus es meae vires, mea magna potentia.” The punctuation of Med., followed by many editors, which connects ‘solus’ with what follows, is harsh and opposed by similar expressions, such as 8. 574, “care puer, mea sola et sera voluptas.” Catull. 62 (64). 215, “Nate mihi longa iucundior unice vita.” Comp. 10. 507, “O dolor atque decus magnum rediture parenti.” With the nom. ‘solus’ Forb. comp. Ov. Her. 14. 73, “Surge, age, Belide, de tot modo fratribus unus,” remarking that it is a question among grammarians whether ‘solus’ has a vocative. The line is imitated by Ov. M. 5. 365, “Arma manusque meae, mea, nate, potentia, dixit, Illa, quibus superas omnis, cape tela, Cupido.”
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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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