[110] Liba subiiciunt epulis for “epulas imponunt libis.” So “subiiciunt veribus prunas” 5. 103 note. Heins. restored ‘Iuppiter ille’ from Med. (second reading) and some other MSS., supported by Serv. and Priscian. Pal., Rom., Gud., and the rest of Ribbeck's MSS. with the first reading of Med., have ‘ipse.’ ‘Iuppiter ille’ is not to be taken as the Jupiter of 3. 251, as Serv. thinks, but like “pater ille” (v. 556., 2. 779., 10. 875), and Plaut. Mostell. 2. 1. 51, “ita ille faxit Iuppiter,” Id. Curc. 1. 1. 27, “nec me ille sirit Iuppiter,” ‘ille’ in this expression originally signifying on high (‘that god away from us’), though the phrase probably ceased in time to have a definite meaning. Possibly however it may be urged on the other side that in all these passages some one is speaking, which is not the case here. ‘Monebat’ is not ‘foretold,’ for Jupiter did not foretell what is denoted by ‘sic’ here, but ‘inspired.’ There is reason to suppose that the custom of using cakes for platters was a religious one, as Serv. on 1. 736 says “tangit ritum Romanorum, qui paniceas sacratasque mensas habebant, in quas libabant:” comp. Id. on 3. 257.
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