Note 428 — Chapter V · PHAEDRUS AND FABLE: POETRY OF THE TIME
Reading edition
II. epil. 1-2:
“Aesopi ingentem (v.l. ingenio) statuam posuere Attici Seruomque aeterna collocarunt in basi.”
Ingenio is most likely. This is one of a few cases in which N and V preserve by their reading (“Aesopi ingenio”) the right tradition against the older manuscript P and the record of R. P gives “Aesopo ingentem (m. pr. Aesopi ingento)....”