The article of Dr. Wasserstein, ‘The Manuscript-tradition of Statius'; Siluae’, C.Q. N.s. iii , 69–78, causes me to revert once again to the question I treated twice in Philologus Ixvi , 85–134; lxxxii , 167–180. In the first place I must refer to a frequent slip of the pen which occurs, for example, in the 414 verses of the Culex thrice, viz.