236 Austin Morris Harmon, 



est may, I think, be safely assij^ned to Christian influence. In II. 

 25. 25 (]HO(i et civitas situ ipso [inexpugnabilis] defendebatur, ct cum 

 mducnda multitudine protinus rex ad/ore crcdebatur, the word inex- 

 pugnabilis is more easy to account for as a marginal note than as 

 an original element of the sentence. In II. 185. 4 intcrque gemitus 

 mortis et vulnermn audicbaiitur barbaroritm ululabiles fletus [captorum 

 et caesoruin] the sense as well as the rhythm of the passage con- 

 demns caesorum ; and finally, in II. 193. 22 (Icsa/enses) per tramites 

 adortus obliqiios [unde parum sperari potuit] ad penuriam vastavit 

 extremanu the words bracketed may well have been added to ex- 

 plain tramites obliquos. 



To examine in detail every passage in which the clausula dis- 

 closes a fault hi the accepted text and to essay the correction of 

 them is the task of an editor — a task, be it said, to which Clark 

 is doing full justice in the preparation of his new edition of Am- 

 mianus.^ I shall simpl}' submit here by way of illustration a few 

 corrections which seem to me to be fairly certain.^ 

 I. 27. 29 (Isauria) uberi palmite viget et frugibus minutis. The 

 ms. reading multis should be kept. 

 33. 3 caeli reserato tepore /?^rt(/reserata temperie ; cf. 240. 27. 

 82. 21 poeticam mediocriter et rhetoricam (amavit) The addition 



is Wagner s : it ivould better be changed to amans. 

 112. 9 duci praecipit Read praecepit. 



204. 10 in stativa solita cesserunt Read recesserunt ivith Gc- 

 lenius ; in 293. 25 accensisque cereis ex usu cessit read 

 recessit (usuccessit V). 

 204. 14 omnes petiverant palatium V petiverat ; read petivere. 

 210. 1 cum auxilio equitum ilico ob repentinum malum inclu- 

 sorimi malum is a conjecture on the part of Castellus ; 

 V reads ad, ivhich points toivard aditum. 

 219. 24 in locum Florentii praefectum praetorio Nebridium tum 

 cjuaestorem eiusdem Caesaris promoverat Read pro- 

 movebat. 

 228. 15 interiores (undaei sine ulla concretione caerulae Read 



caeruleae. 

 228. 19 apud poetas legimus saepe Irim de caelo mitti Read hue 

 mitti ivith Accnrsius : V has hinc, ivhich is omitted al- 

 together by Gelenius. 



* In process of publication by Weidmann. 



* Otlier passages are handled in the commentary' to Book XXT, and 

 in the followiug places ; p. 167, n. 1 ; 169, n. 2 ; 171-175 ; 176, n. 2 ; 

 184, n. 2; 185-186; 208, n. 1; 209, n. 2; 226, n. 2: 283-234: 241, n. 1. 



