Resumen de Varro in Virgilian commentaries: transmission in fragments
This paper analyses the transmission of Varro in late antique Virgil commentaries. Various problems are identified and discussed: the reliability of authors’ names and titles of works in citations and testimonies; different forms of quotation; complications entailed by manuscript transmission; the delimitation of the fragments; the indirect transmission of Varro already in antiquity; the status and function of Varro in a Virgil commentary. Finally I suggest that Varro had a special if implicit status in fourth-century ideological debates, in the tacit rivalry of grammarians with Christian polemicists.
