[348] Medios is the reading of Med. and some other MSS.; but ‘medius’ is the idiomatic expression, and the origin of the variation is obvious. Serv. and Donatus connect these words with the preceding line, so as to make ‘omnis’ the antecedent to ‘quos,’ “ac si diceret, Sceleratior Atreo et Thyeste, vel Eteocle et Polynice;” but this punctuation, though approved by Trapp, is clearly less natural. ‘Furor’ may perhaps refer to the unnatural character of the quarrel, as in Hor. Epod. 7. 13, Lucan 1. 8.
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