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The article discusses the fragmentum Caesenas, manuscript of poet Ovid's poem "Metamorphoses" used by poet N. Heinsius. Topics discussed include the Biblioteca Malatestiana that possesses two manuscripts containing the Metamorphoses, description of the manuscript by scholar Raffaella Crociani and Langermann's collation in the middle of the seventeenth century.

A defence of repertam as lectio difficilior on the basis of Virgil's linguistic usage and his literary and imitative models for this passage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ninety-one Helicobacter pylori-positive patients with nonulcer dyspepsia were randomized to receive either lansoprazole, amoxicillin, and clarithromycin or lansoprazole and placebo. A validated questionnaire assessed dyspeptic symptoms at baseline and at 3, 6, and 12 months. Endoscopies and biopsies were performed at baseline and at 3 and 12 months. There was an overall trend, although not statistically significant, for a benefit of H. pylori eradication. Of the patients in the antibiotics group, 16 of 46 (35%) had symptomatic improvement, versus 9 of 43 (21%) in the control group (P = 0.164). In a secondary analysis, it was found that of the patients without endoscopic gastric erosions, 15 of 34 (44%) in the antibiotics group and 5 of 33 (15%) of controls had symptomatic improvement (P = 0.015). Helicobacter pylori eradication did not prove to be clinically beneficial, although a tendency to symptomatic benefit was detected. Further studies are necessary to confirm the implications of endoscopic gastric erosions in these patients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents a proposed reading of a passage of Ovid's `Medicamina faciei femineae.' Relationship between the poet and his female interlocutors; Possibility of a lacuna.