P. Papinius Statius Thebais 2

ed. John Henry Mozley

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Thebais. P. Papinius Statius. ed. John Henry Mozley. . 1928.

Funding provided by The Mellon Foundation.

Current edition Perseus

Thebais (Statius, P. Papinius. Statius, Volumes 1-2. Mozley, John Henry, editor. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1928.)

Notes on the current edition

Thebais

1.
2.
3. campis P ω: ripis Bentley.
4. animam P: costas ω.
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6.
7.
8. atque omnes P ω: aeque Unger, alte Lachmann: anguicomus Koch.
9. iter est P ω: quies conj. Postgate.
10. ll. 37-40 omitted by P ω though Inserted In the margin by another hand In PBQ. Elsewhere in Statius tonitrus is masculine.
11. frangentia scandere P ω: scandentia frangere Koestlin (cf. Prop. iv. 1. 125): scindere Kohlmann (but cf. Ach. i. 449).
12.
13.
14. Letique P ω: Lethesque Friesemann.
15. suamet P ω: sedem et L. by the lightning of Jove, and lodged in his father's thigh till he was ripe for birth.
16.
17.
18.
19. taurinos sonitu vincentia pulsus P ω (ducentia AT with vincentia written over): Tyrrhenos sonitus vincentia pulsu Laehmann.
20. furorem P: cruorem ω.
21. si ω: se P. the Assyrian, proverbial for luxury (Juv. x. 362).
22.
23. eripitur P: erigitur ω.
24.
25. dispulerat Lachmann: impulerat Pio. Phrygia; Mygdonia was a part of Phrygia. at Thebes, Achelous a river in Aetolia.
26.
27.
28. intus P: undis ω.
29. After this line Duebner, Mueller, Kohlmann and Postdate recognize a lacuna; it seems sufficient to understand fuissent in 186. to a chariot-race, and slew them when they lost.
30.
31. furor? et iam Lachmann: furor est iam P ω.
32.
33.
34. tum Baehrens: cum P ω.
35. matrem PKQ: matrum ω.
36.
37.
38. merentur P: meretur ω.
39. innuptam limine P ω: innupto in limine Garrod conj.
40.
41. sed P ω: et Baehrens, who with most edd. punctuates after malorum, whence Lachmann condemned 268. contrived. It was fitted with chains which closed upon Venus and Mars as they lay together on the bed. (See Horn. Od. viii. 266 f.) Harmonia was the daughter of Venus and Mars. sun when turned into poplars, but he calls them Hesperides (as being in the west) instead of Heliades.
42.
43.
44. laude P ω: fraude Garrod, luce Baehrens.
45. descisse ω: discsse P (ci from ce, i.e. discess(iss)e).
46.
47.
48. in pectora quercus PB (with vires written over): in pectore ω, vires DKS. vires Q (with quercus written over).
49. latrantia PES: iactantia ω.
50.
51.
52.
53. angit P ω: tangit Bentley.
54. amate KC: amata P ω.
55. consumpserat P ω: consumpserit Heinsius.
56.
57.
58. Lechaeo PDN: liceo ω: cf. Silv. ii. 2. 35.
59. abit PB: habet (i orer e) Q: habet ω.
60.
61.
62.
63. qua Klotz: quam P ω: quod Postgate.
64. torvus et ω: servo sed P.
65. gerens P ω: geris DN.
66.
67. actis P ω: aulis Madvig. Jove than that of Oedipus.
68.
69.
70.
71. Oedipodis Jortin: Oedipodes P ω.
72. eras P: eris Deipser.
73. retro ω: regis P.
74.
75.
76.
77. ibi ω: tibi P.
78. laxavit P: lassavit Madvig.
79. crebri arietis ictibus Unger: crebris arietibus P ω.
80.
81.
82.
83.
84. quos superni P ω: quas superne Mueller: quos superne Garrod.
85. tremendo Mueller: frementi P: trementi ω.
86. strictosque Housman: fractosque P ω.
87. in vulnera PN: in vulnere ω. xi. 522 sq., but Statius has made it obscure and difficult: " colles urgentur faucibus " seems to be merely an inversion
88.
89.
90. reddita ω: credita P.
91. prodire ω: deire P: cf. vi. 519.
92.
93. valeant murisque Kooten: murisque valent P ω.
94.
95.
96. mutata P ω: motata Lachmann.
97. valet P ω: valens, iubet, vacat edd.
98.
99. arcuerim K: arguerim P ω.
100.
101.
102. telo P ω: ferro Schol. iii. 152: leto Nauke.
103. etiamnum ω: et adhuc P: tenui iam Garrod, who cp. Sil. Il. ii. 122.
104.
105.
106. mutatum P ω: nutantem Lachmann.
107. spoliis P ω: spiclis conj. Alton. suggests spiclis for spoliis. The spoils are apparently regarded as carried on the shield, spiclis ( darts) would refer to the missiles sticking in the shield, flung by his enemies.
108.
109.
110. aeris P: aeros PBN: heros DQ (aeris written over in Q).
111. noctes Postdate: voces P: caedes P in margin, and ω.
112.
113.
114. devertis P ω: divertis DN: de vertice conj. Garrod.
115. spretura P: inspectura ω. of Athena. Aonian seems here to mean haunt of Muses, from its usual meaning, Boeotian: the Muses were connected with Thessaly also.