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Rh 492. The old seems to me quite right, and the change to  needless. "Beware lest too much confidence produce alarm."

510. Perhaps should be, as the sense seems to require.

521. . Obviously to me has supplanted some epithet of. The nearest word that I think of is. This is in itself irreprovable: |.

528. cannot be right. Dindorf prints metri causâ, I suppose, rightly regarding  as a pyrrhic in the strophe. Apparently for we need an accusative epithet of, and for  a genitive or dative, such as  or  (not , for that occurs twice besides in the sentence). I doubtfully propose |. In the next line, must be either interpreted, I suppose, or changed into. seems to be for the prosaic, settlers.

550., after , is hardly credible. Dindorfs does not remove this objection. Hermann's conjecture seems to me quite justified.

555. Surely ought to be. The poet says that the wind of the desert and the water of Nile come upon the snow-fed fields of Egypt. Like Herodotus, he supposed that snow, melting in the highlands of Abyssinia, kept the Nile full through the summer.

558. is clearly wrong, yet it is hard to believe  right. My last thought is.

572. I do not see how can be nominative to. Io must be nominative to, therefore is corrupt. I conjecture []

574. I protest against rendering, ballast, as an utter monstrosity, and suggest that it means gem, germ. Compare Iliad, iv. 177, and for gems,, a necklace.