[13] pergite pierides hortatur musas ad referenda ea, quae Silenus cantaverat pueris: nam vult exequi sectam Epicuream, quam didicerant tam Vergilius quam Varus docente Sirone. et quasi sub persona Sileni Sironem inducit loquentem, Chromin autem et Mna- sylon se et Varum vult accipi. quibus ideo coniungit puellam, ut ostendat plenam sectam Epicuream, quae nihil sine voluptate vult esse perfectum. sane hoc de Sileno non dicitur fictum a Vergilio, sed a Theopompo translatum. is enim apprehensum Silenum a Midae re- gis pastoribus dicit, crapula madentem et ex ea soporatum; illos dolo adgressos dormientem vinxisse; postea vinculis sponte labentibus libera- tum de rebus naturalibus et antiquis Midae interroganti disputavisse. quem alii Mercurii filium, alii Panos et nymphae, alii ex guttis cru- oris Caeli natum esse dixerunt. chromis et mnasylus isti pueri satyri sunt.
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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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