"Misreading" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... makes him (as Mommsen and others think) restore Antonine's rampart: "vallum per xxxii. passuum millia a mari ad mare." But more probably xxxii. is a misreading for lxxii.] ...
— Early Britain--Roman Britain • Edward Conybeare
... to a misreading of a verse in Ovid's Metam., vii. 759, the Naiades solved the riddles of the oracles, at which Themis, offended, sent forth a wild beast to ravage ...
— The Divine Comedy, Volume 2, Purgatory [Purgatorio] • Dante Alighieri |
