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John Conington, Commentary on Vergil's Aeneid, Volume 2, P. VERGILI MARONIS, line 140, 141 (search)
us—perosos as an indignant exclamation—to think that they should now (modo, a)/rti) not abhor the whole race of women! But it seems doubtful whether he had fully grasped Heyne's meaning even when he supported it, as in Lectt. Vergg. l. c. he finds a chronological incongruity between the two clauses peccare—satis and penitus— perosos, not seeing that ante does not go with fuisset but with peccare. Peerlkamp and Ribbeck adopt modo nunc, a conj. of Markland's, found also in the Venice edition of 1472, and perhaps supported by a reading mentioned by Pierius, modo nec. Fuisset then would have its ordinary sense, modo perosos being understood as modo perosi essent; it would have been enough for them to sin once, had they learnt to detest the race of women now. But it is difficult to see what advantage the new reading has over the old. For perosos there is a strange variant perosus, found as a correction in both Med. and fragm. Vat., and originally in Gud., where it is altered into perosum,