Note 242 — XLII (A II, 16)
Evelyn S. (Evelyn Shirley) Shuckburgh translation
πρόσθε λέων ὄπιθεν δὲ ——. Cicero leaves Atticus, as he often does, to fill up the rest of the line, δράκων, μέσση δὲ χίμαιρα (Hom. Il. vi. 181). He means, of course, that Quintus is inconsistent.