[520] Aetherias was read before Heins. The confusion naturally arose from the change of the text in v. 518. ‘Contendit’ Med., Rom. (first reading), ‘contorsit’ Pal., Med. (second reading). Wagn. objects to ‘contorsit’ as inappropriate; but though it is not applied to shooting elsewhere in Virg., there seems no reason why it should be incapable of such an application, as we have just had ‘torsisti’ so used v. 497, while ‘tendere’ and ‘contendere,’ as we have just seen, are both used of levelling an arrow. On the whole, I have not thought it worth while to disturb ‘contendit,’ which is read by Non. p. 260. In 10. 521 the MSS. vary between ‘contenderat’ and ‘contorserat.’
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