[610] The common reading is ‘egelido,’ which is found in Med. (originally), and in two of Ribbeck's cursives (one of them corrected), and was read by Serv. ‘Et gelido’ however is read by Pal., Rom., Gud. and by Med. corrected. (Fragm. Vat. which is quoted for it, is in this case identical with med., a leaf of Med. comprising vv. 585—642 having been separated from it and placed in the Vat. MS.) Ribbeck reads ‘ecgelido:’ comp. v. 286. ‘Et’ is not weak, as Forb. thinks, obut sufficiently Virgilian, the combination ‘procul et secretum’ resembling “extremus galeaque ima” 5. 498, “longius ex altoque” G. 3. 238 (wrongly explained in first edition). the classical sense of ‘egelidus’ seems to be cool (comp. Catull. 44 (46). 1, “Iam ver egelidos refert tepores”); Serv. however makes the prefix intensive, and so Auson., Tetrastichs on the Caesars, 21. 1 “Inpiger egelido movet arma Severus ab Histro.” The river has just been called ‘gelidus’ v. 597. ‘Secretum flumine,’ in the retirement of the river: “secreti ad fluminis undam” 3. 389.
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