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that Servius himself forgets this rule in explaining ' curulis', 

 A. 11. 384 ("a curru', sc). It is not hard to find much more 

 striking violations of it. There are several passages in which 

 words of different quantity are connected without comment:, 

 G. 2. 97, aminneum (quasi sine minio); A. 6, 4, anchora 

 (^ay/.nfia)-, A. 8, 190, Cacus {/.a/.o >?) -^ A. 6, 299. Charon (quasi 

 dyoAiiwy)-, G. 2, 93, defrutum (defraudatur .... fraudem)*; 

 A. 3. 35, Gradivus (gradior)*; A. 6, 180, cedria (quasi /.aio/Uvr/'s 

 o/iud'i ''>ri»'>-^)\ B. 4, 35, heroas (terra j>« dicta); A. 1, 292, 

 securis (quasi semicuris); A. 1, 688; 4, 2, venenum (quod per 

 venas eat); and the implied etymologies of Acheron, A. 6, 

 107, (quasi sine gaudio),and irritum, A. 7,421 (a retibus). 



VI. M. Thomas, Essai sur Servius, pp. P(98-5i0, discusses 

 Servius' attitude towards the fables which proved so attract- 

 ive to the grammarians of Quintilian's day (see Inst. or. I 8, 

 19). Our commentator remarks more than once (on Aen. 6, 

 74, and 6, 617,) that Vergil, and the poets generally, are apt 

 to vary the forms of these stories. Frequently he mentions 

 a fable only to reject it: ad Aen. 3. 73, ' Veritas longe alia est'; 

 ad Aen. 6, 134, 'ratio autem haec est'; ad Aen. 2, 7, 'sed hoc 

 fabulae est'; ad Aen. 6, 14, etc. Such stories are always quoted 

 as fabulous, and are usually prefaced by some such words 

 as 'fabula autem talis est', yet they prove a convenient re- 

 source, especially in Daniel's Scholia, for the explanation of 

 several words. Accounts of people changed into animals, 

 birds or plants, of implements named after their inventors, 

 etc., are given under the following words: «cr'^?, A. 1, 394f; 

 amaracus, A 1, 693; anethus, B. 2, 47; /e/.cu'/rj, A. 1, 505; 

 /M'i's^, A. 4, 250; circinus, A. 6, 14; odip-^r,^ A. 3, 91; hyacinthus, 



* Vergil, G. 4, 269, has defrutum ( » short) ; Plautus, Pseudol. II 4, 51, defrutuin(w long)— 

 ' Murrinain passum defrutum mellam mel quoiuismodi,' (Ussing's reading). Minton War- 

 ren, Amer. Jotirn.of Phil., Vol. IV, p. 73, has found four instances of Gradivus (a short) out 

 of fifty-three where the word ocqurs in Latin poetry. These are Ov. M. 6, 427; Val. Fl. 5, 

 G51; Sil. 15, 15; 15, 337. In each case Gradivus is at the end of a hexameter. 



tin quoting from the Servian commentary I have everywhere distinguished between 

 the 'vulgate' and the additional notes found in the fuller version. Thus an italicized refer- 

 ence such as ad Aen. 4, 255 means that the note which follows is found only in Daniel's 

 Scholia; when part of a note is printed in italics as 'Amazon, quasi w/SU p.U.,<in^ sine 

 jfiammo', the italicized words are added in the fuller version, the rest is in the vulgate. 

 Such references as Africa, Aen. 6, 312; 5, 128, quasi cizsp (ffii/.Tji;^ are meant to imply that 

 the same or a similar etymology is given in each division. 



