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Excerpt from Bibliographical and Other Studies on the Pervigilium Veneris: Compiled From Research in the Library of the British Museum
Pithou sent copies of this booklet to Joseph Justus Scaliger, to Jan van der Does, the Elder (janus Dousa, pater; A.n. 1545 and to J oest Lips (justus Lipsius; A. D. 1547 Scaliger returned his copy some time later to Pithou approving a certain number of the conjectured emenda tions, which Pithon had printed in the margin of his text, and suggesting to him certain others. This copy of the editio princeps, with Scaliger's comments, is now bound up in vol. 395 (fols. 68-9) of the 'collection Dupuy in the National Library at Paris.16 It is interesting to note that, at the head of his comments on the text, Scaliger somewhat modified his Opinion as to the authorship of the poem, saying Poeta iste ?oruit post Antoninorum tempora, quod facile ex charactere deprehenditur; et, si verum auguror, post Constantinum; quibus temporibus non temere alio quam trochaico metro scribebant. Non alias crebrior eius metri usus.'
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