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A vro( i' sv i/jiffaroifft iirctiytlav viliotfftt 



'Ki^ffov of^n xui niffov, if/tjrit ■jroXm, vhxrt •)(jivat. 



He considers this text as erroneous, because it consists of parti- 

 ciples without a verb,* and to rectify it, clianges y^ivm, in the last 

 line, into ^ivii.-f Belu agrees that the reading is wrung, but says, 

 the error lies in the pronoun Ifji,}]!/ which should be the verb tSti. 

 This, he maintains, was the original text ; but the C in old manu- 

 scripts, particularly those of the twelfth 'century, having a resem- 

 blance to >], the carelessness of some transcriber wrote it in that 

 form ; and the v being afterwards added, to suit the concord, gave 

 a new country to the poet of Anazarba. 



Another passage quoted by Schneider to assist his argument, is 

 from the second book, where the poet having spoken of the temple 

 of Memnon in the vicinity of Apamea, says, 



'AxXa. TO, fjbiv, Kotra, xocf^ov, ctsiiro[/,iv tv^io, x«XX)) 



Here, says the critic, is the writer's own confession that Apamea 

 is his country. Belu to remove the difficulty, instead of ri^iTi^ni 

 reads v/jt^ire^Tig, and supposes the poet to be addressing Julia and 

 her son Antoninus Bassianus ; to which Schneider objects, because 

 the poem commences with an address to Antoninus alone. But 

 not to give so much importance to a single word, surely a 

 poet might be allowed, without any great violation of propriety, 



• " Judicans et quidem recte, locutionem, quae sclis constat participiis, subsistere non posse" 

 Belu-Prolngoniena. p. xv. 

 t Schneider has farther judiciously rectified the passage, by clianging i!raiy.^*> into waiyi^w. 



