[179] Alphea ab origine Med., supported by Priscian 587 P., and Gud. corrected, and so Heins. ‘Alpheae ab origine’ Pal., Rom., and Gud. originally, and so rightly Heyne and the subsequent edd. ‘Alpheae ab origine Pisae’ is like “Idaeae sacro de vertice pinus” below v. 230 note, while there is also a contrast with ‘Etrusca solo.’ Ribbeck leaving out the ‘ab’ reads ‘Alpheae origine,’ solely in deference to Lachmann's rule about the elision of diphthongs after long vowels (Lucr. p. 160), which has been discussed in the note on 6. 505. Serv. gives no less than seven legends about the foundation of Pisa. Its supposed Elean origin was not improbably a fiction due to the similarity of names (Heyne, Excursus ad h. l.). ‘Pisae’ plur. as in an inscription in the Corpus Inscr. Lat. 1. 559: comp. Rutilius 1. 573.
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