ABSTRACT
For once, the two editors engaged, respectively, by the Leipzig and the Stuttgart branch of the Bibliotheca Teubneriana in the 1980s, Borzsak and Shackleton Bailey, agreed on the following text of a difficult stanza: Me fabulosae Vulture in Apulonutricis extra limina Pulliaeludo fatigatumque somnofronde nova puerum palumbes texere. This text is identical with that of their predecessors Friedrich Vollmer (1907) and Friedrich Klingner (1959). Niall Rudd suggested in his Loeb edition nutricis extra limina pergulae “beyond the threshold of my nurse’s cottage”. This text was first suggested by Emil Bahrens and is still considered perhaps the best conjecture. The word pergula is rare and found only in Plautus and Lucilius before Horace.
