[19] urbem quam dicunt romam quaeritur, cur de Caesare in- terrogatus, Romam describat. et aut simplicitate utitur rustica, ut ordinem narrationis plenum non teneat, sed per longas ambages ad interrogata descendat: aut certe quia nullus, qui continetur, est sine ea re, quae continet, nec potest ulla persona esse sine loco: unde necesse habuit interrogatus de Caesare locum describere, in quo eum viderat. est autem longum hyperbaton 'urbem quam di- cunt Romam. hic illum vidi Meliboee.'
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Maurus Servius Honoratus. In Vergilii carmina comentarii. Servii Grammatici qui feruntur in Vergilii carmina commentarii; recensuerunt Georgius Thilo et Hermannus Hagen. Georgius Thilo. Leipzig. B. G. Teubner. 1881.
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