Passages cited in Miscellaneae observationes in auctores veteres et recentes ab eruditis Britannis anno MDCCXXXI edi coeptae (Amsterdam: Janssonio-Waesbergios, 1732-34), 1.2-4.3

1.2 (1732) 153-268:

On Statius' style;
Thebaid 1: 12 ("arcus"), 18 ("spirare"), 27-30 (see also p. 268), 53-56, 74 ("parentem"), 100-10 ("cognatave ... pectore"), 112 ("quatit illa minans"), 123 ("culmine"), 157-8 ("demissus ... portam ... Ibero"), 156-7 ("peteretur ... emissus"), 161 ("Tyriae Phrygiaeque"), 197 ("atria"), 163 ("furiisque"), 205-8, 202 ("deus ... tamen"), 208, 260 ("sancti"), 284 ("motu"), 291 ("irrevocabile"), 295 ("attolat"), 304 ("illigat"), 344 ("nituere"), 351 ("inglomerans"), 352 ("diffunditque"), 367 ("pecudumque"), 386 ("infertur"), 408 ("cruentam"), 428-9 ("accinctos ... enses"), 440 ("in usque"), 453, 466 ("facti"), 472 ("praemiserit"), 491 ("divina que"), 493 ("obtutu"), 494 ("init"), 502 ("erroribus"), 516 ("icta"), 517 ("tenues... sonantes"), 521 ("lychnis"), 548-51, 569-70, 571 ("pubescentibus"), 587 ("viridi"), 590 ("dissicit"), 610 ("adunca ... haesit"), 623 ("potestas"), 652 ("praestabat"), 655 ("luget"), 666-67 ("stata sacra ... epulae"), 693 ("portitor", 698-700 ("tibi mergere ... ingratis"), 709 ("honori"), 712 ("megaera"), 702 (Lactantius' interpretation, "assiduam")

Thebaid 2: 81 ("rabido"), 2.39 ("insumsere"), 44 ("audax)"), 47 ("aequore"), 108-10 ("superbus ... sua"), 122 ("deripuit"), 124 ("vulnere"), 136-8 ("impulerat ... advertit"), 145-6 ("sub pectore ... tracta"), 150 ("aptum atque evolvere"), 152 ("numine"), 158 ("petat"), 162 ("dominantibus armis"), 169 ("cura"), 175 ("audentior"), 187 ("potior"), 200 ("inducere"), 206 ("-que"), 212-3 ("tanta licentia ... furor est"), 223 ("foribus cum inmissa"), 227-8 ("argolides ... matres"), 229 ("nova"), 231 ("ruborem"), 242 ("velint"), 243, 246-48, 250 ("patris"), 251-3 (("lumine ... munychiis ... his"), 255 ("virgineas libare comas"), 258-61 ("euippi ... firmare"), 267 ("Harmonies"), 268 ("prosequar"), 274 ("Telchines"), 276-85 ("cingit ... hilari"), 276 ("sudor ibat"), 287 ("decor"), 305 (cf. Lucan), 311 ("descisse"), 320 ("curis"), 328 ("rapta"), 338 ("latrantia"), 344 ("decedere"), 350 ("numquid"), 351 ("inconscius"), 353 ("dolorem"), 355 ("ponit"), 359 ("dimittere si quos"), 367-8 ("cum ... iam"), 373 ("Deipyle"), 375 ("emensus"), 379 ("quod vergit"), 383 ("Theumessia"), 384 ("dirum"), 389 ("mediis ramus manifestat"), 393 ("et dicti"), 400 ("velox iam"), 401 ("amissae"), 403-4 ("aperto sub iove"), 405 ("submissum"), 406 ("ostro ... auro"), 418-20 ("gerens ... fossor ... inimicent ... praesuris"), 420-3; 422 ("alloquio"), 426 ("proprior capulo"), 429 ("longumque"), 440 ("trahant"), 441 ("tenebris"), 451 ("nihil"), 463-6 ("primus ... patrum ... Oedipodes ... nos"), 469 ("evolat oeneae"), 483-4 ("lectissima ... corpora ... hortantibus"), 505-9 ("oedipodioniae ... trementes"), 517 ("deprensa"), 527 ("Phoebum"), 533-4 ("tantum ... admovet"), 538 ("chthonius"), 541 ("tegimen ... atraque"), 546 ("putat sibi"), 551 ("vallibus"), 554 ("vox"), 556-7 ("abscisis ... uncas ... dira manus"), 561 ("avellit"), 562 ("librare"), 565 ("superstantem"), 573-4 ("confessus ... halys"), 577 ("turbatam ... catervam"), 580-1 ("pectore ... orbem corripuit"), 587 ("magni"), 588 ("divisus"), 591-3 ("ipsae socios errare manus ... involvi"), 593 ("cruentis"), 599-601 ("at ... lasso ... obsessus ... cessare"), 601 ("segnior"), 605 ("passum"), 618-9 ("et capti ... nodosa ... clava"), 623 ("haec"), 626 ("prorupto"), 633 ("sustentans"), 636 ("perfringit"), 638-9 ("in luce ... morte"), 640 ("vulnere"), 645 ("proterrebat"), 649 ("stellis interlabentibus umbras"), 658 ("sequeris ... compendia"), 661 ("trieterica"), 662 ("orgia cadmi"), 664 ("fragiles ... putatis"), 666 ("celenaea ... buxo"), 669-72 ("lassusque ... defertur ... clipeum nec sustinet umbo mutatum spoliis"), 684 ("ubi tu"), 689-90 ("huic .. uius abi"), 693 ("aeris"), 695-6 ("inerti damnatur"), 699 ("perferre"), 714 ("nox"), 718 ("ardentes"), 722-3 (from Callimachus), 724 ("intemeratarum ... equarum"), 733-34, 741

Thebaid 3: 2-3, 61 ("ore"), 97-8, 106-7, 115 ("per avia"), 122-3, 163 ("numerandaque"), 180-88 ("ruit ...colonis ... suis ... hic"), 205 ("dura"), 250 ("aut"), 285 ("tyrios"), 299 ("hunc"), 344 ("furores"), 378 ("optima"), 392 ("animosque et pectors"), 420 ("versus sonori sunt"), 433 ("dux ... volantes"), 444 ("ferosque"), 574 ("bissenos ... dies"), 582-3 ("fessa ... horrentesque ... recurvant"), 601 ("praegressus"), 641 ("metus"), 696 ("iacentis"), 721 ("movet")

Thebaid 4: 16 ("innuptaeque"), 36-7 ("solaverit ... nec enim"), 52-55 ("lambit ... tuto phlegethonte"), 65 ("diu"), 113 ("noctis"), 130-31 ("nivea ... terunt"), 158 ("longum"), 254-55 ("duces... impulit"), 282-4 ("laudo inventionem"), 333 ("hoc"), 366 ("huc illuc"), 477-48 (on p. 161), 501 ("divi"), 521 ("umbra"), 535 ("angustam"), 537 ("vulgata"), 548 ("move"), 604-9, 615 ("premis"), 621 ("infensus ... miserate"), 675 ("fusaque"), 822 ("perfurere")

Thebaid 5: 5 ("sanguinei"), 39 ("capta"), 103 ("profari est"), 108 ("flore"), 140 ("agit"), 158 ("admovet"), 229 ("cum"), 308 ("fundo"), 361 ("aberant terra"), 600 ("piger"), 634 ("quae"), 646 ("accepta")

1.3 (1732) 317-63:

Collational notes on Barth's edition;
Thebaid 5: 676-7 ("timidone ... rapida"), 692 ("recens"), 699 ("alipedum curru"), 732 ("accessit"), 750-2

Thebaid 6: 111-12, 225 ("squameus"), 261-62 (Claudian borrows), 284 ("prensatque"), 302 ("cauta"), 363-4, 378-9 ("prior parssententiaepulcra est, posterior aequo audacior"), 384 ("minor et Iovis"), 443 "cydona", 571 ("ut"), 698-99 ("meminit dextrae est laudabilis audacia"), 734 ("timeant"), 752 ("minantes")

Thebaid 7: 45-6 ("hoc est non sublime sed inflatum et tumidum. Statius ei vitio saepe obnoxius est"), 55-59 (in Chaucer and Dryden), 86-88, 138 ("mortis"), 188 ("minoave ... ida"), 206 ("corpora reddere"), 218-21, 284 ("nudaque"), 324 ("tonitru"), 380 ("referent"), 386 ("nefandus"), 457-8, 482 ("claustra"), 483 ("reserate"), 613 ("nunc"), 665 ("volentes"), 733 ("mihi")

Thebaid 8: 30 ("styx"), 87-89, 132 ("circumit"), 159 ("incursant"), 167 ("lavare"), 226 ("in pectore"), 236, 419 ("telis"), 447 ("guttur ... cruprem" vacat), 464 ("confundit"), 636 ("pigra")

Thebaid 9: 23 ("mirantur"), 148 ("recensens"), 152 ("fingebat"), 157 ("ille"), 250 ("equum"), 301 ("solvet"), 410 ("dimissaque"), 578 ("nemorum"), 626 ("dira"), 701 ("trementes"), 796 ("turpique"), 806-11, 840 ("evicta"), 847 ("fugiunt pheneique phalanges"), 891 ("capesse")

Thebaid 10: 26 ("vivi"), 42 ("infestis"), 91-94 ("mirum est Statium non imitatum esse sculptores," discussion of Spenser's borrowing), 100-105 (vacant), 335 ("recedant"), 397 ("affectatque errare manum"), 553 ("obseptasque"), 652-60, 892, 903 ("semeleaque busta")

Thebaid 11: 11 ("inlaudata"), 18 ("tacentia"), 22, 41 ("tecta")

2.1 (1733) 62-84:

Thebaid 11: 104 (punctuate "timeo paulum,", read "retardent"), 22 ("timetur" or "timentur"), 219 ("laetique"), 254-56 ("efflat ... valles"), 440 ("Versus optimi sunt. Sed Statius more solito culpam evitare non potuit"), 546 ("Cedenti, Eteocli, hostis, Polynices"), 652 ("clarant"), 668 ("audentius"), 715 ("aspera"), 721 ("aequis"), 751 ("deosque")

Thebaid 12: 12.26 ("loquuntur"), 76 ("perennes"), 90 ("nimio"); Ach. 1.27 ("ab undosis"), 77 ("genas"), 86 ("tepidos ... Teucro"), 119 ("at tunc"), 170 ("asportat"), 180 ("talis"), 325 ("cogique"), 393 ("te precor"), 466 ("contempsit"), 505 ("multus honos"), 540 ("si tua"), 548 ("grande quid"), 575 ("infigit"), 618 ("invasit"), 848-50 ("qua ... vittis")

4.3 (1734) 388-97:

Theb. 1.227, 231-2, 235 ("monstro"), 550 ("laxant"), 571 ("et pubem ineuntibus"), 700 ("ingratis"); 2.303 ("impia"), 393 ("plana"), 484 ("corpora"); 3.282 ("sociare"), 451-2

4.815-20

5.481 ("scopulis ... vertice")

7.683-4

10.127 ("trucis")

12.523-25

Ach. 1.77 ("fatigat ...comas"), 184 ("Bacchaeaque"), 196 ("blandusque"), 205 ("myconos"), 339 ("gradum"), 657-61 ("sic pater ... ereptum"), 719-21, 740 ("limina"), 818-9, 831 ("actu"), 848 ("quas")

2.3 (1733) 405-7:

Theb. 1.157 ("sol emissus"); 2.466 ("non poscimus"), 2.509 ("frequentes" or "frequenti"); 4.535 ("ambustam")

2.2 (1733) 217-39:

Silv. 1.1.39 ("accendit"), 1.1.82 ("me non audente"), 1.2.55 ("qua"), 1.3.53, 1.3.100 ("dictum lyra maiore"), 1.4.88 ("plaudebat"), 1.5.45 ("Multus ubique dies"); 2.5.15 ("totas"), 2.5.19, 2.6.20 ("cervusque Maronis"), 2.6.30 ("calentem"), 2.6.41 ("blandi severo"), 2.6.93 ("sed et ipse vetat"); 3.pr.15("quod rarissimum est" on 228-9), 3.3.21-25 ("pigrasque ... en"), 3.1.107 (from Callimachus), 3.3.37 ("ditentur"), 3.4.6 ("Phoebeie"); 4.2.60 ("templaque des"); 4.3.1; 5.2.120, 5.3.15-16 ("silenti fulta caput cithara est pulcra descriptio"), 5.3.103 ("et effreno")