Carminis huius opus, caussas expromere, quare Te memorant, Gange totoque Oriente subacto, Cinnama tu primus captivaqne tura dedisti, 15 20 25 Gaudet, et a Baccho mella reperta ferunt. Liber: et inventi præmia mellis habet. Atque avide trunco condita mella petit. Ridet et ipse Deus: limumque inducere monstrat. 30 35 40 45 16 One MS. 27 Pang. 14 Four of the best MSS. and three others Vitisator. calidis. 22 Sanctis. 23 Very many MSS. dulcibus idem. flamina-flumina-Gangeaque flumina. 30 Some of the best MSS. have quoque or quosque. 33 Many MSS. lenisque-three lætusque— two graviorque-one dulcemque. 35 About twenty MSS. in excelsatwo in extrema. 36 Et celat. 37 One MS. resedit-one consedit. 39 Three of the best MSS. nexus. 42 Many MSS. prima, Heins. conj. sima. Melle pater fruitur: liboque infusa calenti 50 Cur hedera cincta est? hedera est gratissima Baccho, 55 Restat, ut inveniam, quare toga libera detur 60 XXIX. FASTI. IV. 179. CYBELE. Ter sine perpetuo coelum versetur in axe; Ipsa sedens molli comitum cervice feretur 5 Scena sonat, ludique vocant. Spectate, Quirites; Quærere multa libet: sed me sonus æris acuti Da, Dea, quas sciter, doctas, Cybeleïa, neptes. 10 50 So all the best MSS.-the rest splendida-two mella reperta. 51 Three of the best MSS. presset-præsit-pressit-præstat. 58 Apposuere B.-Nysiadas Nymphas...opposuisse ferunt-apposuisse. 60 So four of the best MSS. and six others we find also Luciferis pueris... tuis-Luce geri pueris...tua, &c. 3 One MS. tympana cornu. 9 Many MSS. vacant. 9 Many MSS. spectare. 13 So one good MS.-most have quam scite three quem sciter-one quæ scitor. 14 So four of the best MSS.-the rest vidit. Pandite, mandati memores, Heliconis alumnæ, Ille suam metuens, ut quæque erat edita, prolem Sæpe Rhea questa est toties fecunda, nec unquam Creditur. Acceptam parce movere fidem. Iupiter ortus erat. Pro magno teste vetustas Veste latens saxum coelesti gutture sedit. 25 Ardua iam dudum resonat tinnitibus Ide; Pars clypeos rudibus, galeas pars tundit inanes: Res latuit patrem: priscique imitamina facti 30 35 40 Hoc quoque, dux operis, moneas precor; unde petita 25 One of the best MSS. magna, and so B. 27 One good MS. viscere, and so B.—three gurgite. 31 Very many MSS. manibus-four good ones sudibus-two of the best rudibus. 33 Seven of the best MSS. have Res latuit; priscique manent imitamina facti. 37 Three of the best MSS. leones, and so B. 38 About forty MSS. præbeat—the rest præbent. 38 Many MSS. comas. 41 Many MSS. turrifera-two turrifica. 41 One of the best MSS. and many others ornata-the rest onerata. 42 Two of the best MSS. An Phrygiis, and so B. 45 Four MSS. frondibus. Sed nondum fatis Latio sua numina posci Senserat: assuetis substiteratque locis. 50 Post, ut Roma potens opibus iam sæcula quinque Inspicit. Inspectum tale fuisse ferunt: Mater abest; Matrem iubeo, Romane, requiras. 55 60 Mittuntur proceres. Phrygiæ tum sceptra tenebat Mira canam: longo tremuit cum murmure tellus; 65 Ipsa peti volui: ne sit mora: mitte volentem Nostra eris; in Phrygios Roma refertur avos. Illa, quibus fugiens Phryx pius usus erat. Longaque Phrixeæ stagna sororis adit: 70 75 80 49 Nomina-munera. 51 One MS. bis sæcula. 52 Many MSS. e domito. 53 One MS. fat. signa. 59 K. has et Ideo. 69 One MS. scindunt. 70 Four MSS. Phryx puer. 72 Cœlestem. 73 Four of the best MSS. and two others iustissima-the same number cultissima. 75 So two of the best MSS.-the rest capax. 76 Tenedum veteres, and so B. 79 Very many MSS. lassas. 83 Two MSS. fingere. 84 Two of the best MSS. Brontesque et Steropes, and so B. Equoraque Afra legit, Sardoaque regna sinistris 85 Ostia contigerat, qua se Tiberinus in altum Dividit, et campo liberiore natat. Omnis Eques, mistaque gravis cum Plebe Senatus, 90 Procedunt pariter matres, natæque, nurusque; Sedula fune viri contento brachia lassant. Quisquis adest operi, plus quam pro parte laborat; Illa velut medio stabilis sedet insula ponto. 95 100 Rumor iniquus Casta quidem; sed non et credita. Sed nos in vitium credula turba sumus. 105 110 Figit, et hos edit, crine iacente, sonos: 85 Two MSS. Litoraque. 86 Some respicit-others despicit-one of the best adspicit. 88 One MS. fluit, a gloss. 91 The reading in the text is a conj. of Heins. Two of the best MSS. have natique nurusque -the rest natique virique. 92 One of the best MSS. castos-four sacros. 94 Vix tulit. 94 Two MSS. adversis...aquis. 96 One of the best MSS. arenoso. 96 Three MSS. fessa carina. 97 One of the best MSS. operis. 98 One MS. tonante. 101 Neapolis reads ab Atta, see notes. 103 So the best MSS.-the rest est credita. 106 Many MSS. 107 Some of the best MSS. mens veri. 107 Ridet. 109 One of the best MSS. procedit. 109 Two of the best MSS. ad agmina. 110 Haurit. 111 Ad æthera. 115 One MSS. facunda. sonos, |