[539] “Sane sciendum Cupencum Sabinorum lingua sacerdotem vocari: ut apud Romanos Flaminem et Pontificem, sacerdotem: sunt autem Cupenci Herculis sacerdotes. Ergo quod huic proprium nomen de sacerdote pinxit, bene dixit ‘nec di texere sui,’” Serv. It seems therefore unnecessary to take ‘sui’ as=‘propitious.’
This text is part of:
John Conington. P. Vergili Maronis opera. P. Vergili Maronis Opera. The works of. Virgil. , with a Commentary by John Conington, M.A. and Henry Nettleship, M.A. London. Whittaker and Co., Ave Maria Lane;. George Bell and Sons, York Street, Covent Garden. 1876.
The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for entering this text.
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.