ABSTRACT
Whereas most of Vergil's text is witnessed by at least two ancient mss., often more, the first 51 lines of the Fourth Eclogue has only one ancient witness, the Romanus (R). But the above lines were also the text of Servius. The 9th-century ms. γ, which can be considered a close descendent of P, suggests also that the text above represents a unanimous tradition at least from the 4th century onwards.2
