l. 381--_caerula colla tumentem._ Caerulum est viride cum nigro.--Serv.
on vii. 198. Cf. iii. 208, where it is used of the colour of the sea
after a storm.

l. 616--_nimbo effulgens._ est fulgidum lumen quo deorum capita
cinguntur. sic etiam pingi solet.--Serv. Cf. xii. 416.

BOOK THIRD

l. 127--_freta concita terris_ with all the best MSS.; _consita_ Con.

l. 152--_qua se Plena per insertas fundebat Luna fenestras._ The usual
explanation, which makes _insertas_ an epithet transferred by a sort of
hypallage from _Luna_ to _fenestras_, is extremely violent, and makes
the word little more than a repetition of _se fundebat_. Servius
mentions two other interpretations; _non seratas, quasi inseratas_, and
_clatratas_; the last has been adopted in the translation.

In the passage of Lucretius (ii. 114) which Virgil has imitated here,

Contemplator enim cum solis lumina . . .
Inserti fundunt radii per opaca domorum,

it is possible that _clatris_ may be the lost word.

l. 684--

_Contra iussa monent Heleni, Scyllam atque Charybdim
Inter, utramque viam leti discrimine parvo
Ni teneant cursus._

In this difficult passage it is probably best to take _cursus_ as the
subject to teneant (_cursus teneant_, id est agantur.--Serv. Cf. also l.
454 above, _quamvis vi cursus in altum Vela vocet_), _viam_ being either
the direct object of _teneant_, or in loose apposition to _Scyllam atque
Charybdim_.

l. 708--_tempestatibus actis_ with Rom. and Pal.; _actus_ Con. after
Med.

BOOK FOURTH

Totus hic liber . . . in consiliis et subtilitatibus est.
nam paene comicus stilus est. nec mirum, ubi de amore
tractatur.--Serv.

l. 273--Omitted with the best MSS.

l. 528--Omitted with the best MSS.

BOOK FIFTH

l. 595--_iuduntque per undas_, omitted with the preponderance of MS.
authority.

BOOK SIXTH

l. 242--Omitted with the balance of MS. authority.

l. 806--_virtutem extendere factis_ with Med.; _virtute extendere vires_
Con.

BOOK EIGHTH

l. 46--Omitted with the majority of the best MSS.

l. 383--_Arma rogo. Genetrix nato te filia Nerei_.

_Arma rogo._ hic distinguendum, ut cui petat non dicat, sed
relinquat intellegi . . . _Genetrix nato te filia Nerei._ hoc
est, soles hoc praestare matribus.--Serv.

BOOK NINTH

l. 29--Omitted with all the best MSS.

l. 122--Omitted with all the best MSS.

l. 281--

_Me nulla dies tam forti