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Notes
A. F. Stocker, "A Possible New Source for Servius Danielis on Aeneid III-V," Studies in Bibliography, IV (1951), 129-141.
The conclusions of this paper, like those of its predecessor, are based on a new study by the author of the text particularly for Aeneid III and Aeneid V, from photographs of all the important manuscripts. Photographs for Aeneid IV were inaccessible, being in the possession of Professor Albert H. Travis, of the University of California at Los Angeles, who is collaborating with the author and others in the preparation of Volume III of the "Harvard Servius," soon to appear. The author has examined the text for Aeneid IV, however, carefully enough to satisfy himself that his conclusions would be valid for that book as well.
Written about 840 A. D., in the opinion of Professor Paul Lehmann (Servianorum in VergilVergiliiii Carmina Commentariorum Editio Harvardiana, vol. II [Lancaster, Pa., 1946], praef. v, n. 17).
Georg Thilo, Servii Grammatici Qui Feruntur in Vergilii Carmina Commentarii, vol. I (Leipzig, 1881), praef. XLVIII-L.
J. J. H. Savage, "The Manuscripts of the Commentary of Servius Danielis on Virgil," Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, XLIII (1932), 87-93.
Ed., Pub. Virgilii Maronis Bucolicorum Eclogae X, Georgicorum Libri IIII, Aeneidos Libri XII, et in ea mauri Servii Honorati Grammatici Commentarii, ex Antiquiss. Exemplaribus Longe Meliores et Auctiores (Paris, 1600).
J. P. Elder, "De Servii Commentariis Danielinis, ut aiunt, in Aeneidos Libros Primum et Secundum Confectis," Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, LI (1940), 315-318.
With such an hypothesis, one stands, of course, on slippery ground. From the work of an intelligent compiler, blending material from D and material from Servius into a new note of his own composition, such a product might be expected to emerge that Servius' shorter note would look like an abridgment of it. The evidence indicates, however, that the compiler was mechanical in his methods and not given to original composition. Otherwise he would certainly have improved the junctures and transitions, the awkwardness of which has been mentioned. The supposition of ancient relationship between the longer note in Servius Danielis and the shorter one in the vulgate Servius seems, therefore, the more probable.
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