[338] Wagn. restored ‘Romani’ from Med., Pal., Gud. &c. Rom. and two of Ribbeck's cursives have ‘Romano,’ the old reading, which may have arisen, as Wagn. thinks, from the two first letters of ‘nomine.’ The old editions used to point after ‘portam,’ constructing ‘quam memorant’ with ‘honorem.’ With the present pointing either ‘Romani’ or ‘Romano’ gives good sense. If the latter seems the more poetical, we may urge that the name was not strictly Roman, the very object of the context being to show that it came from Carmentis. The Carmental gate was otherwise called the “porta scelerata,” being that through which the Fabii passed.
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