[535]. Or Theodulus: v. Leyser, op. cit., p. 825 sq.
[536]. This barbarous, and to Mrs Grundy shocking, but by no means uninteresting versifier, was a great favourite with the Middle Ages. He may be found conveniently in Baehrens, Poetæ Latini Minores, v. 313 sq.
[537]. Leyser oddly annotated Geta gemens “titulus tragediæ,” but the words—
“Quia captus Mercuriali
Arte Jovem lectus Amphitrionis habet”—
can only refer to an Amphitryon.
“Thesiphones raptum qui comptus carmine claudit
Arte nec ingenio claudicat ille suo.”
To abduct Tisiphone would be a feather in the cap of any Don Juan, for audacity if not for taste; but the text is corrupt enough to make it (as it is elsewhere) an easy f.l. for Persephone. The puns in claudit and claudicat, moreover, are practically decisive.