Abstract

In CQ N.S. xxi, 146 f. Dr. G. Giangrande reaffirms his claim that the reading of most manuscripts at A. R. I. 1333 is sound. I argued in CQ N.S. xix, 274 f. that is more likely to be from than from, on the ground that readers of an epic poem would not take it in any other way, since Homer has only and from. Giangrande now produces the variants and found here and there in Homer's text. According to him, ‘the more obscure and debated the variant, the more elegant its reproduction was felt to be’. Apollonius thus campaigns for from on the basis of these obscure varian.