ABSTRACT
One of the most noteworthy achievements in the annals of Vergilian scholarship is Peter Hofman Peerlkamp's conjecture his ex omnia primis at Ecl. 6. 33 (see the following 'issue') instead of his exordia primis which any rightminded editor would have had no reason to suspect. Peerlkamp's conjecture was corroborated, if not proven right, almost simultaneously by Ribbeck's edition which for the first time recorded P's reading as HIS EXOMNIA PRIMIS,2 a reading not accepted fully by editors before Remigio Sabbadini's edition (whose austere 'swansong' as a Vergil critic has no reference to Peerlkamp, however). P's reading is now accepted by Mynors, Geymonat and Goold, no doubt due to Ribbeck's finding.3
