[738] Exspectate is the reading of all Ribbeck's MSS. (Pal., we must remember, is wanting), and was apparently read by Serv., whose note is “pro ‘exspectatis:’ modum pro modo posuit:” but though Ribbeck accepts it, it is difficult to see what sense is to be extracted from the imperative. Pier. says that ‘exspectare’ “in aliquot omnino codicibus antiquis invenitur;” but it is unknown what these are. In later copies it is found, as in the Balliol MS. Canon. has the imperative. Gossrau sensibly remarks on Serv.'s note, “Ubi ea explicandi ratio invaluit, mirum non est, si quae describentis errore oriuntur formae, aliquo modo explicantur et confirmantur.” ‘Segnes exspectare’ like “segnes nodum solvere Gratiae” Hor. 3 Od. 21. 22. Cerda quotes instances of ‘plena mensa’ from Plaut. Men. 1. 1. 13, Prop. 3. 7. 5.
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