104 Journal of Philology. instillavit Pontius ? an acipenser capiendus et Scipio et Pontius et coenaturi simul et non * una connexione ab immutabili aeter- nitate continebantur ? Mihi quidem expendenti atque aestimanti, quid quisque habeat proprii, quid exp..." The " plaga Demo- criti" occurs again De Fato, 46, the immutable and eternal succession of causes, 28. [Schneidewin rightly says that an an are not here disjunctive; but his insertion of Quid before quaeso is needless. The sense is : " Pray, is the exclusion of the many from our feast owing to a change of mind, &c. ?"] There seems to be no lacuna after non, the sense being : Was it fated from all eter- nity who should dine together and who should not ? Then follows a gap before the words, " satis erat dici : Byrsa fundabitur. Id enim in fatis, ut aiunt, fuisset : quae fata, Ennius inquit, Deum rex nutu partitur suo. Quod vero mutato nomine evertenda fuisset * [id fieri debuisse facile putabitur ex] cohae- rentia causarum, [queis Karthago] ad occasum interitumque redigeretur, [mox etiam ad ipsum] exit[ium et eversionem] per- tinacia populorum et belli..." The editor's supplements have little probability. " It would have been enough," says Cicero, "for the oracle to say: Byrsa shall be founded. That might have been ascribed to fate. But what follows in the oracle, Under a new name it shall perish, ought to have been left out. For its destruction was owing to natural causes, and not to fate." The verse of Ennius, which is found nowhere else, may be a senarius iambicus, or trochaicus octonan'us. Then on another parchment are two small pieces. "Reg.[ulus] [dejvotos omnes nostros .... Cur[tium in] pri[mis], quem ju[re ac mer]ito vel Her[culem vel] Thes[eum] appel[labimus] nostrum. Is enim pro sal[ute] patriae fut[ura] inferos .... Attigit : idque facinus, quod vix [amplitjudine fati conc[ipere- tur], supremo clarissimoque liberae voluntatis] ar[dore con]sum- mavit. It...." Again the editor's supplements are objectionable. For ardore should be read arbitrio. [For amplitudine perhaps necessitu- dine.] J. E. B. M. [Abridged from Schneidewin.]
