ABSTRACT
This book is in many ways, but not all, a continuation of the author's previous book Vergiliana: Critical Studies on the Texts of Publius Vergilius Maro. The plural noun critica he understand approximately as ‘textual issues to diagnose and judge’. The Critica is intertwined in its genesis with Vergiliana. The author discusses some textual problems that have caught his interest so much so that he wished to be a participant in the discussions, believing that he had something of worth to say. He brought together critical issues in different authors who throughout his career have confronted him with highly interesting passages, poems and texts. These texts have nothing else in common than their importance in one way or another and their critical issues. Textual criticism is nowadays more than ever a special branch of classical philology; it is primarily an offshoot of the fundamental process of editing texts and shows its worth and virtues all in such a context.
