'Dii magni, salaputium disertum.'
[586] xii.
[587] xxxviii.
[588] Mr. Munro, in his Elucidations (pp. 209, etc.), shows that the whole point of the poem consists in the contrast drawn between the 'Zmyrna' of Cinna and the 'Annals of Volusius.' Baehrens admits the reading 'Hortensius' into the text, but adds in a note on the word, vox corrupta est.
[589] lxxvi. 1-4.
[590] Cf. lxviii. 12:—
'Neu me odisse putes hospitis officium.'
[591] lxxvi. 19.
[592] xvi. 5-6.
[593] lxxxiv.