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page 70 note 1 So Proserpine is called Iuno Stygia, Auerna, Actnaea, inferna, infera, profunds.
page 72 note 1 ‘Diese Ansicht hat zuerst Marx, F. (Berl.phil. Woch. 1891 Sp. 834Google Scholar) vorgebracht’ says , SchanzGesck. d. röm. Litt. I ii p. 43 ed. 3Google Scholar. It was put forward by Tyrrell in 1886. There is another false attribution in the next epistle, II 10 I, where the emendation pipulo for pipuli, ascribed by MrSjoegren, in his edition to Housmanius and in his commentationes Tullianae p. 158Google Scholarto Housmannus, is due to neither of those critics, but again to Tyrrell.
page 78 note 1 This last conjecture is MrBirt's, , and very like him. In the same place, Rhein, Mus. 1916 pp. 274–6Google Scholar, he corrupts the menti of u. 8 into uenti, of all things in the world, because menti periculosi ‘ist offenbar Unsinn’. I therefore cite Plin. n. h. XXVI 2 ‘grauissimum ex his (nouis facieimorbis) lichenas appellauere Graeco nomine, Latine, quoniam a mento fere oriebatur, … mentagram, ‘3’ non fuerat haec lues apud maiores patresque nostros, et primum Ti. Claudi Caesaris principatu medio inrepsit in Italiam quodam Perusino equite Romano quaestorio scriba, cum in Asia adparuisset, indecontagioncm eius importante. nee sensere id malum feminae ant seruitia plebesque humilis aut media, sed proceres ueloci transitu osculi maxime'.
