| Abstract |
In this note we argue that in line 815 of Book 1 of Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica spumantia should be read—a reading of one manuscript, which was independently also conjectured by Nicolaas Heinsius—and not the manuscript reading fumantia, which is printed by all editors. We argue for the reading from three perspectives: the sacrificial context of the passage, the intratextual contact with another passage from the Argonautica, and the intricate intertextual contact with a passage from Silius Italicus’ Punica.
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