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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 February 2013
(i) On Statius Theb. 9.248—50
talis agit sparsos mediisque in fluctibus heros
frena manu pariter pariter regit arm a, pedumque
remigio sustentat equum.
249 sq. pedumque … equum Pω: pedum se (quem Housman) … equus Jortin
Klotz rejected both Jortin's and Housman's conjectures on the grounds that they were ‘contra sensum non minus quam contra metricam Stati’. It will be my purpose in this note to demonstrate that Klotz knew what he was talking about when he said that the conjectures fail to accord with Statius's metrical practice.
1. Thus the recent editors of his collected classical papers should not have proposed to correct ‘suggested’ to ‘suggest’.
2. The epithets of course agree with ‘animula’ as subject of ‘abibis’, and not with the vocative. But in a plain text it is hard otherwise to dissociate them from ‘loca’.