WMR was the first to publish this fragment of latin. Because of its relation to a savage poetic epigram DGR wrote,
probably about Buchanan, WMR read it as âintended for a hexameter, but, as any one can see, it will
not scanâ (see his note in his edition of 1911, where the text was first published).
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1911
Scholarly Commentary
IntroductionÂ
WMR was the first to publish this fragment of latin. Because of its relation to a savage poetic epigram DGR wrote, probably about Buchanan, WMR read it as âintended for a hexameter, but, as any one can see, it will not scanâ (see his note in his edition of 1911, where the text was first published).
Textual History: CompositionÂ
No manuscript of the line is known.