Abstract

Thanks to Prof. Leo and to Prof. Lindsay, we know now two important things about this corrupt trochaic line, Simul huic nescio qui turbare qui hue it decedamus. First, that the line announces the coming of the chorus, although this chorus utters no words. Secondly, that instead of turbare the true reading is turbae, a dative which designates the band of the approaching choreutae. We may guess that the archetype of BCD had turbare, the fault turbre having sprung from an old TVRBAE, in which A had been read R. The restitution of turbae involves two other emendations; the preceding qui is to be corrected into quoi, and the following qui into quae.