ABSTRACT
When one compares the mss. for 1. 35 and 3. 519 the choice between reliquit and relinquit seems to have been at the scribe's discretion. An editor has to use his own judgement in each case. For me, the parallelism in tenses (it . . . relinquit) is an important argument in favour of relinquit in this case as well as in the former. Mynors' argument in both cases – that the perfect is more expressive – is subjec-tive and arbitrary as the same could be said for preferring the present.
