where “he whom no goddess deems,” etc., is included among “those who have never smiled,” etc.qui non risere parentes
nec deus hunc mensa dea nec dignata cubili est,Ecl. iv. 62.1
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as
[p. 447]
when the plural follows the singular, as in the
phrase gladio pugnacissima gens Romani (the Romans
are a nation that fight fiercely with the sword); for
gens is a singular noun indicating multitude. Or the
singular may follow the plural, as in the following
instance,
1 Those that have never smiled on their parents, neither does any god honour him by admitting him to his feats nor goddess deem him worthy of her bed." Although there can be no doubt as to the correctness of Politian's emendation in the passage as quoted here, it is against all MSS. authority, both of Virgil and Quintilian, and it is still frequently held that Virgil wrote cui.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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