Excerpt from Aetna: A Critical Recension of the Text, Based on a New Examination of Mss, , With Prolegomena, Translation, Textual and Exegetical Commentary, Excursus, and Complete Index of the Words

But after all, the value of an edition of a difficult work of antiquity, especially a poetical work, and this transmitted in an imperfect and often deeply vitiated condition, must ultimately rest on considerations of a more tangible and palpable kind, such as the inter-relation of the mss. Which have preserved it, and the indications of language and metre.

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