Abstract

We may begin with Quintilian 9.3.44:prioris sententiae uerbum ultimum ac sequentis primum frequenter est idem, quo quidem schemate utuntur poetae saepius. This is indeed a common phenomenon, and textual corruption is a common consequence; one of the two repeated words is lost by haplography and the gap is filled with a metrical interpolation; this type of corruption is as old as the archetype of Vergil; cf.Aen.10.705,Cisseis regina Parin; <Paris>urbe paterna, wherePariswas lost andcreatinserted;Pariswas restored by Bentley. Similarly at Ov.Tr.1.11.12 all the MSS haveomnis ab hac cura mens releuata mea est, andcura leuatais restored fromCIL6.9632; cf.

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