[418] Repeated from G. 1. 304. Serv. says “Probus sane sic adnotavit: Si hunc versum omitteret, melius fecisset.” Germ. illustrates the custom of wreathing the vessel on departing, from Ovid and Q. Smyrnaeus, and refers to the crowning of the theoric vessel which the Athenians sent to Delos. After this line Ribbeck inserts vv. 548, 549, without any external warrant. His reasons for the change are given in a tract, “Emendationes Vergilianae” (Berne, 1858), where he complains of the lines in their original position as unconnected with the context, while admitting that this very incoherence will probably be admired by “elegantiores interpretes,” and says of the present context, “hic quidem, quo facilius beneficium illud, unicam spem suam, impetraret, criminari quamvis leviter sororem poterat, quod suis verborum inlecebris tantis turbis se obiecisset.” Perhaps it will be thought a sufficient refutation of this conjecture that its author, in receiving it into the text, now says, “Sed quoniam vel sic hiat oratio, non absolvisse locum putandus est poeta.”
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