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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 edition. Excerpt:...by a lively imagination acting on inferior mss. is as follows: Non Nili ex tenui vortex alit arva; necesse est, Confluat, errantes arcessens undique et undas Attrahat cet. 120--122 explain 118 'tantos--uidet' then 123 'Flumina cet.'illustrate 'ac torrens--hiatu'. 123 the pleonasm here may perhaps be compared with Lucr.i 1031 'Efficit ut largis auidum mare fluminis undis Integrent amnes', and Virgil's 'rapidus montano flumine torrens' Hor. epod. 2 25 'Labuntur altis interim riuis' Bland. 1 etc.: but most mss. and editions ripis. 124 illa i.e. flumina. 125 fatali, out of which they never reissue into the light. 129 a line misunderstood by wrong stopping in editions: the earth serves either as a resting-place, hospitium, or a passage, semita, for the waters. 130 pigraque cet.: comp. 157 'Pigraque et in pondus conferta immobilis esset'. 133 quaedam I read for qua etiam which Wernsdorf and Jacob strangely retain: comp. with this and what precedes, Sen. nat. quaest. in 26 3 'quaedam flumina palam in aliquem specum decidunt et sic ex oculis auferuntur; quaedam consumuntur paulatim et intercidunt. eadem ex interuallo reuertuntur recipiuntque et nomen et cursum cet.' incondita sur. must mean 'rise without having before been buried' somewhat similar is LucanvilOl 'mixta iacent incondita uiuis Corpora'. 135 Spir. lat. seems to express much the same as the caeca spiramenta of Virg. geor. I 89: the air escapes through holes too fine for sight; it is illustrated by 142 Incomperta cet. so that Gorallus' patent is against the sense. 135 pignera: see n. to 40. 136 haesura means 'cannot fail to attract' comp. Cic. phil. xm 5 'hi in oculis haerebunt et, cum licebit, in faucibus' Val.Flacc. I 333'haesuraque uerba relinque Auribus', the sense is...