ABSTRACT
Only a few years ago I started a comment on the passage as presented in Conte's edition in this way: "Mynors, Geymonat and Harrison have accepted Madvig's elegant aquis which got rid of the embarrassing relative pronoun – embarrassing because of the following conjunction quando. The need for conjecture in this line is dismissed by Conte without further argument (except his references)." I was, however, wrong on the main issue, namely by accepting quando as a causal conjunction and rejecting the possibility that quando could be taken as an indefinite adverb = aliquando. Therefore quis was not only acceptable, it was surely not to be doubted. That is not to say that Conte is right: He says in his apparatus "nam versus sententiam causalem enuntiat (quando)" and the references to Szantyr §308 and K–S 2, §197 are misleading. Let me then start anew:
