[401] ‘Paeonidum’ Med., ‘Paeonum’ Pal., “fortasse recte,” says Ribbeck. Serv. apparently read ‘Paeonium.’ “Paeoniis revocatum herbis et amore Dianae” 7. 769. Paeonius = Παιώνιος, and should probably be scanned as a trisyllable, and there seems no warrant for shortening the o. But it is quite possible that Virg. meant to leave the quantity doubtful, as in the case of “conubium” (see Munro on Lucr. 3.776): the ambiguity is kept up by later poets, as Ov. M. 15. 535, Stat. 1 Silv. 4. 107, Sil. 14. 27, and Claudian, Aponus 67, de Bello Get. 121, de Cons. Stilichonis 173. (Forc.) ‘Retorto amictu,’ that his hands might be free: so Sil. 5. 367 (of the physician curing Mago), “intortos de more adstrictus amictus:” comp. Stat. 1 Silv. 4. 107, “ritu se cingit uterque Paeonio.” (Heyne and Forb.) “Medici enim fere palliati, etiam Romae, quandoquidem Graeci fere erant genere. Obvius quoque idem habitus Aesculapii in veterum signis ac nummis.” (Heyne, Exc. 4).
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