I'm reading, after a long time, the messages more interesting, that I've
saved, because only now I've time for answering...If it could be of use, I
found in the commentary of Mario Geymonat (Milano 1981) that this verses
refer to Liberalia (sollemnia vota reddemus Nymphis) and Ambarvalia
I am having no luck connecting the following quotation to its original
source:
'Donatus scribit Vergilium solitum dicere: nullam virtutem commodiorem
homini esse patentia ac nullam fortunam adeo esse asperam, quam prudenter
patiendo vir fortis non vincat.'
The article I got this from merely
The article I got this from merely attributes the quotation to 'Fabricius'.
The reference may be to the 'Observationes Lectionis Virgilianae' of
Georgius Fabricius, which were printed (in more than one version) in
Renaissance editions of Virgil. See, for example, Virgil's Opera (Basel,
1586) or
