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given rise to many attempts at improving the line. Thus 

 one ms. has 'quo vir melior est,' another 'quo vir est 

 melior,' a third 'quo est vir melior,' while several read 'est 

 quo vir melior.' The last arrangement of the words gives 

 undue emjDhasis to 'est.' Lambin conjectured 'quo 

 melior is est,' and the Marfinius of Cruquius, the only 

 one of his mss. that contained these eight lines, had 

 'quo melior hie est.' But there are pronouns enough 

 already in 'ille . . . illo.' Several mss. liad 'quo melior vir 

 et est longe subtilior.' Meineke defended this hyperbaton 

 for 'quo melior vir est et longe subtilior,' appealing to 

 Sat. I. 3, 63; I. 4, 68; I. 9, 51. This, however, gives the 

 impossible combination 'quo longe subtilior.' Heindorf 

 found 'adest' in Berol. 5 and accepted it. 



Vs. 5. 'puer et.' The obscurity of this line has given 

 rise to several emendations: 'puer est' (Gesner); 'pueros' 

 (Urlichs); 'puerum est' (Reisig); 'nuper' (Rutgers); 

 'fuerit' (Praedicow, who also read 'quem' and 'exhorta- 

 tus'); 'xDueros' (NipiDerdey**). W. TeuffeP" suggested 'me 

 olim' for 'multum' and defended 'olim' by a reference to 

 Sat. I. 4, 105. 



Vs. 6. 'exoratus' is confirmed by the number and im- 

 portance of the mss. in which it is found. The other 

 mss. readings 'exortatus' and ' exliortatus ' are only pos- 

 sible with ' puerum ' in the preceding line, for there is very 

 little authority for the active form or passive meaning of 

 'exhortor.' In any case the omission of 'est' is a diffi- 

 culty, and hence, apparently, Peerlkamp's conjecture 'est 

 hortatus.' The conjectures 'exornatus' (Glareanus) and 

 'est ornatus' (Valart) are obviously suggested by such ex- 

 pressions as 'adeo exornatum dabo, adeo depexum, ut dum 

 vivat, meminerit mei.' " Horkel apparently wanted a good 

 strong word after 'loris et funibus,' and settled upon 'ex- 

 coriatus,' which Meir ^;e and Schiitz approve. 



B Opusc. 493. 



^"Rhein. Mus. XXX. p. 622. 



'1 Ter. £reaM<. T), 1, 77. 



