I am currently in an AP Latin course studying Vergil’s Aeneid. Before I started this class, I translated Book I and a sizable portion of book II from Pharr’s edition over the summer. When I started my AP class, they were using Barbara Weiden Boyd’s AP excerpts edition. My question is concerning the accusative plural endings of i-stem nouns. In Pharr’s edition, is used for the acc. pl. In Boyd’s edition, es is used. I believe the is is more accurate, but I am not sure. Would anyone be able to tell me which is more faithful to the oldest available manuscripts?[/u]
-is is more accurate, I believe. If you cite a specific place, I can check it in the OCT.
In book 1.487, Boyd’s uses es for the acc. pl. of inermis. Pharr uses inermis