ABSTRACT
Looking back at the annals of philology one must praise the endeavours of some scholars trying to come to terms with the difficulty of via. The author would also say that Scaliger’s text is a simplification. Heinsius presented with a forte another solution, definitely inferior to that of Scaliger: Sunt aliae quas ipse viae sibi repperit usus. The last commentator to present what the author would call a serious and unbiased discussion was Will Richter, although he had no clarified result himself, as no solution was, in his view, satisfactory. Today there seems to be a sort of consensus to accept the text as it stands, albeit with misgivings. The main objection to the endeavours of scholars so far is that they have failed to take account of a common syntactical construction pertaining to verbs meaning ‘find’.
