Cor. Chr. Coll., Cambridge.
_Emendation of a Passage in Virgil_ (Vol. iii., p. 237.).--The emendation
of SCRIBLERUS is certainly objectionable, and by no means satisfactory, for
these reasons:--1st. "Ac sunt in spatio" is by no means elegant Latin,
which "addunt se in spatia" is; for the word "addunt" is constantly used in
the same way elsewhere.
2nd. The word "spatium" is seldom used to signify a chariot course.
"Spatia," the plural, was the proper expression, and is only so deviated
from in poetry in a single instance. (Juv. _Sat._ vi. 582.) It is used in
{358} the plural in Virg. _AEn_. v. 316. 325. 327.; Statius, _Theb._ vi.
594.; Horace, _Epist._ 1. xiv. 9.
_Vide_ Smith's _Dictionary of Antiquities_, under art. Circus, p. 232.
Surely there is nothing unintelligible in the expression, "addunt se in
spatia," which is the reading given in almost all the best editions.