CONTENTS
*: transmission defended
••: not published before
•: partly new or changed
❦ (floral heart): author’s original conjecture
❀ (white florette): past conjecture by another defended by me
Preface
Introduction
I
HORACE
1 • ❀ Epod. 1. Exemplifying Challenges in Editing Horace
2 ••❀ Epod. 2. Sorting out Conjectures
3 ❀ Epod. 5. 87f. The Cruelty of Witchcraft
4 *• Epod. 16. 15f. How to Escape a Doomed Society
5 ❦ Carm. 1. 28. 32. A Corruption in the Archytas Ode?
6 * Carm. 3. 2. 1. An Appeal to Friendly Youth
7 •• ❀ Carm. 3. 4. 10. The Terrified Nurse
8 • Carm. 3. 6. Its Date and Function
9 •• An Appendix on the Text of Carm. 3. 6 exempli gratia
10 • ❀ Carm. 3. 14. 11. Bentley Vindicated
11 ❦ Carm. 4. 8. 9f. rerum replacing res
12 ❦ Carm. 4. 8. A Distorted Ode
13 ❀ Carm. 4. 12. The Enigmatic Vergili
14 * •• Carm. 4. 14. 20–24. The Misunderstood prope
15 ❦ Carm. 4. 15. 23-32. Trojan Anchises
16 * Saec. 25–29. Prayer versus Fact
17 •• ❦ Ep. 1. 1. 78. Greedy Widows?
18 * ❦ Ep. 2. 1. 45-46. Syntax to be Simplified
19 ❦ Ep. 2. 1. 132–133. The Bard as Mediator
20 •• ❀ Ars 65. A Late Recognition of Bentley’s Conjecture
21 ❀ Ars 120. Whose Honour?
22 ❦ Ars 254. Cruces or Emendation?
23 ❦ Ars 351-353. An Ignored Question Mark
References I
II
OTHER AUTHORS
1 •• Conjectural Emendation in three Stages:
Diagnosis, Conjecture, Interpretation
2 •• Ennius Ann. 42 Sk. Ilia left alone
3 • Ennius Ann. 220-1 Sk. The Nature of Discordia
4 ❦ Ennius Ann. 579 Sk. A Statue for the Conqueror
5 •• Ennius scen. 32 TrRF. The gemitus of Andromacha
6 •• Ennius scen. 130 TrRF. Telephus at Argos
7 •• Ennius Var. 17-18 V. Tears for the Poet
8 ❦ Catullus 64. 313. The Spinning Parcae
9 •❦ Catullus 67. In Search of Sense
10 ❦ Sallust Cat. 3. 5. Another Deletion?
11 * Sallust Cat. 57. 4. A locus conclamatus
12 •• ❦ Liv. 4. 20. Iuppiter feretrius, Livy and Augustus
13 * Hadrian’s Animula vagula. Diagnosis and Interpretation
References II
III
VERGIL
1 ❀ Ecl. 3. 100. A Bull’s Skin and Bones
2 ❀ Ecl. 4. 40-63. A Baby’s Smile once more
3 ❦ G. 2. 20-22. The Art of Propagation
4 * G. 2. 265-268. The Nursery for Vine Plants
5 ❦ A. 1. 377. An Instance of forte at Stake
6 ••❦ A. 3. 147-152. An Epiphany and its Textual Issues
7 ❀ A. 9. 463. The Fruitfulness of a Withdrawn Charge
8 ••❀ A. 11. 151-153. Pallas’ Promise to Evander
9 •• Additions and Second Thoughts
References III
Index of Readings Discussed