[391] Delectus Pal. and originally Gud. All the better MSS. have ‘Iapyx’ or ‘Iapix:’ so Macrob. S. 5. 18, 12, and Ribbeck, following Heins., recalls it. Only some inferior copies have ‘Iapis.’ But Heyne was probably right in reading ‘Iapis,’ which is confirmed by Ausonius, Epig. 29. 7, “Idmona quod vatem, medicum quod Iapida dicunt.” (Taubm.) This passage shows that ‘Iapis’ was considered to be derived from ἰάομαι, a word to which ‘Iapyx’ (the name of a wind) would hardly be referred except by way of a pun. The authority of MSS. is very slight in the case of proper names: in G. 3. 475 they are decidedly in favour of ‘Iapygis,’ as against the true reading ‘Iapydis.’ Serv. gives no help here as to the form of the word. With the whole passage comp. Il. 4. 210 foll.
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