Note 178 — Chapter XIX · LITURGICAL PLAYS (continued)

This line is not actually in the Compiègne text. But it is in most of the later versions of this scene, and is interesting, as being a classical tag from Sallust, Catilina, c. 32; cf. Köppen, 21; Creizenach, i. 63. Reminiscences of Aeneid, viii. 112; ix. 376, are sometimes put into Herod’s mouth in the scene with the Magi (Du Méril, 164, 166).