Ecl. 2. 32 A god's title

There is hardly a clearer example of the almost stubborn conservatism² found occasionally³ in the most widespread 20th-century editions4 than the treatment of Ecl. 2. 32. Almost all editors still prefer Pan primum calamos cera coniungere pluris / instituit in spite of Servius (on Ecl. 3. 25) – with Perret (1961) and Saint-Denis (1967) as laudable exceptions.⁵