[77] ite domum saturae v. h. i. c. verecunde se capellarum dicit esse pastorem, id est vilissimorum animalium: nam bucolica scribens, debuit se dicere boum esse pastorem; sed vitans arrogan- tiam, ultimum se voluit esse, non principem in scribendis bucoli- cis: quamvis alii dicant, ideo eum etiam capellarum se memorasse pa- storem, quod apud nonnullos de capris propter abundantiam lactis vel fetuum maior fructus putetur, ut ipse ait "densior hinc suboles, hinc largi copia lactis", et item "quo minor est illis curae mortalis egestas".
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Maurus Servius Honoratus. In Vergilii carmina comentarii. Servii Grammatici qui feruntur in Vergilii carmina commentarii; recensuerunt Georgius Thilo et Hermannus Hagen. Georgius Thilo. Leipzig. B. G. Teubner. 1881.
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