[67] Med. (originally), Pal., Rom., and the Verona fragm. have ‘petit fatis;’ Gu., Med. (corrected), and two of Ribbeck's cursives ‘petiit fatis.’ ‘Fatis petiit,’ from ‘libri nonnulli admodum vetusti’ of Pierius, was adopted by Heinsius, who was followed by Heyne and Wagn. in his large edition. It was naturally approved by Lachmann (on Lucr. 3.1042) as confirming his doctrine about the quantity of the final it in ‘petiit’ and the perfects of “eo” and its compounds. See Excursus on G. 2. 81 (2nd ed.). Juno speaks of ‘fata’ as of a power opposed to her in 1. 39: here, with her ‘esto,’ she first allows the case of her opponents, and then in the next line adds her own comment on it, interpreting ‘fatis’ as ‘prophecies’ (1. 382), and the prophecies as the ravings of Cassandra. ‘Auctor’ here in the same sense as in the phrase ‘patres auctores fiunt.’ Comp. “deus auctor Apollo” 8. 335, and “auctor ego audendi” 12. 159. The sense requires a colon before and after ‘esto,’ not (as Forb. punctuates) a comma.
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