[339] Tertia palma Diores is a sort of loose apposition, into which those who have occasion to speak of ‘prizes’ in English not uncommonly fall, identifying the prizeman with the prize. No earlier instance of the expression is quoted, but it has been imitated by later writers, such as Silius: see Forcell. The use of ‘palma’ in G. 1. 59 is not quite parallel, as has been there remarked. Here we might have expected the word to be restricted to the victor, see v. 111 above, but it is extended to the three who stand in the relation of victors to the rest, receiving not only presents but prizes. ‘Nunc,’ having been originally fifth.
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