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 fortibus ausis Dissimilem arguerit tantum, Fortuna secunda Aut adversa cadat._ With some hesitation I have adopted this reading as the one open to least objection, though the balance of authority is decidedly in favour of _haud adversa_. For the position of _tantum_ cf. Ecl. x. 46, according to the 'subtilior explicatio' now generally adopted. l. 412-- _Et venit adversi in tergum Sulmonis ibique Frangitur, et fisso transit praecordia ligno._