The Aeneid of Virgil

Chapter 1

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_Contra iussa monent Heleni, Scyllam atque Charybdim Inter, utramque viam leti discrimine parvo Ni teneant cursus._

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 _Scyllam atque Charybdim_.

l. 708--_tempestatibus actis_ with Rom. and Pal.; _actus_ Con. after Med.

BOOK FOURTH

Totus hic liber . . . in consiliis et subtilitatibus est. nam paene comicus stilus est. nec mirum, ubi de amore tractatur.--Serv.

l. 273--Omitted with the best MSS.

l. 528--Omitted with the best MSS.

BOOK FIFTH

l. 595--_iuduntque per undas_, omitted with the preponderance of MS. authority.

BOOK SIXTH

l. 242--Omitted with the balance of MS. authority.

l. 806--_virtutem extendere factis_ with Med.; _virtute extendere vires_ Con.

BOOK EIGHTH

l. 46--Omitted with the majority of the best MSS.

l. 383--_Arma rogo. Genetrix nato te filia Nerei_.

_Arma rogo._ hic distinguendum, ut cui petat non dicat, sed relinquat intellegi . . . _Genetrix nato te filia Nerei._ hoc est, soles hoc praestare matribus.--Serv.

BOOK NINTH

l. 29--Omitted with all the best MSS.

l. 122--Omitted with all the best MSS.