Classical Antiquity
In this difficult passage it is probably best to take _cursus_ as the subject to teneant (_cursus teneant_, id est agantur.--Serv. Cf. also l. 454 above, _quamvis vi cursus in altum Vela vocet_), _viam_ being either the direct object of _teneant_, or in loose apposition to _Sc...
In this difficult passage it is probably best to take _cursus_ as the subject to teneant (_cursus teneant_, id est agantur.--Serv. Cf. also l. 454 above, _quamvis vi cursus in a...
2. Chapter 2With some hesitation I have adopted this reading as the one open to least objection, though the balance of authority is decidedly in favour of _haud adversa_. For the position o...
3. Chapter 3The phrase _in tergum_ occurs twice elsewhere: ix. 764--meaning 'on the back'; and xi. 653--meaning 'backward'; and in x. 718 the uncertainty about the order of the lines makes...