ABSTRACT
With an unprecedented thoroughness, in addition to circumspect evaluations, Gesine Manuwald has edited Ennius’s scenic fragments as vol. II (2012) in the great Tragicorum Romanorum Fragmenta project. Every future Ennian scholar commenting on the scenic scripts will be heavily indebted to this new edition, not least due to the plethora of references to earlier scholarship. There is no transmitted variant for conatur and trabem in the codices of Nonius. Admittedly, the scribe who wrote conatur trabem could hardly have understood them as meaningful in combination. Only the word trabem may safely be considered corrupt, however: conatur is not corrupt straight off; conatur gravem was proposed by Lucas Fruterius, paleographically a reasonable suggestion, although it does not go particularly well with gemitum. The author's conclusion is that he would not have signalled as strong a disapproval of conatur in an edition.
