[773] Ungere or ‘unguere’ is the reading of all Ribbeck's MSS., though in Pal. the first letter is in an erasure. The inferior MSS. present considerable variety, whence Bentley wished to read “tingere.” For the anointing of arrows with poison comp. Od. 1. 261 foll., where it is mentioned as a thing of doubtful morality. It does not appear in the Iliad. ‘Manu’ is pleonastic. “Calamos armare veneno” 10. 140.
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