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This too I notice in the same book of Nigidius: 36 Swoboda. If you write the genitive case of amicus, he says, or of magnus, end the word with a single i; but if you write the nominative plural, you must write magnei and amicei, with an e followed by i, and so with similar words. Also Id. 37. if you write terra in the genitive, let it end with the letter i, as terrai; Really terrái. but in the dative with e, as terrae. Also Id. 38. one who writes mei in the genitive case, as when we say mei studiosus, or ' devoted to me,' let him write it with i only (mei), not with e (meei); Gellius refers only to the ending, which is i alone, and not i preceded by e. but when he writes mehei, it must be written with e and i, since it is the dative case. Led by the authority of a most learned man, I thought that I ought not to pass by these statements, for the sake of those who desire a knowledge of such matters.
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Of verses of Homer and Parthenius, which Virgil seems to have followed.
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THERE is a verse of the poet Parthenius: Anal. Alex., p. 285, fr. 33, Meineke. To Glaucus, Nereus and sea-dwelling Melicertes. This verse Virgil has emulated, and has made it equal to the original by a graceful change of two words: Georg. i. 437. To Glaucus, Panopea, and Ino's son Melicertes.
