ABSTRACT
Modern editors are by and large in favour of letting the exclamation of Nisus end with sequar at 391: Mynors (following Hirtzel), Geymonat, Williams, Perret, Paratore, Conte.2 I think their decision is wrong. With this sentence structure what follows becomes almost as perplexing as Nisus' path. Hardie admits the difficulty and mentions Peerlkamp's conjecture revolvit as tempting, but this is a cure for the symptoms, not for the disease. Grammar may be well enough cared for, but the impression of an overlong sentence, below the usual standard of Vergilian word economy, persists.
