INDEX OF GREEK AUTHORS QUOTED
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Fowler, W. Warde (William Warde)
Source notes
‘Factum abiit, monimenta manent; nam vivere captam
Nunc quoque lex volpem Carseolana vetat.’
The best MSS. have ‘nam dicere certam.’ Bergk conjectured ‘namque icere captam.’ The reading given above is adopted from some inferior MSS. by H. Peter (Leipzig, 1889), following Heinsius and Riese. Mr. S. G. Owen of Ch. Ch., our best authority on the text of Ovid, has kindly sent me the suggestion namque ire repertam, comparing, for the use of ire, Ovid, Am. 3. 6. 20 ‘sic aeternus eas.’ This conjecture, which occurred independently to myself, suits the sense and is close to the reading of the best MSS.
251. J. Grimm, Reinhardt der Fuchs, cclxix (quoted by Peter). Ovid’s explanation is of course wrong; the story is beyond doubt meant to explain the ritual, or a law to which the ritual gave rise.
252. Preller-Jordan, ii. 43. See under Robigalia.
253. Myth. Forsch. 107 foll.
254. Ovid’s word is terga, but he must, I think, mean ‘tails.’