[81] Fando, ‘in talking:’ note on E. 8. 71. ‘Aliquid,’ the old reading, supported by some MSS. both of Virg. and of Priscian p. 811, evidently arose from a misunderstanding of ‘aliquod,’ as if it went with ‘fando.’ ‘Aliquod nomen’ seems equivalent to “si nomen fando pervenit alicubi” or “aliquo tempore,” or perhaps “aliqua forte,” on the principle illustrated E. 1. 54. Ovid has imitated this line (15. 497), “Fando aliquem Hippolytum vestras, puto, contigit auris . . . occubuisse neci.”
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