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quenched in night.' gemina has MS. authority, geminae is more in Catullus's manner. Cf. i.xm 75.

lv 9. Corrupt, avelli sinite Avant, avellent...puellae? E. ' avertistis, saepefl? are proposed as emendations.

22. vostri sis, nostri sis codd. nostri sis E. would mean c so long as I can get to you and tell you my secrets.'

23 — 32 appear in the MSS. as a separate poem. They are usually inserted, as here, after 13. But they come in awkwardly wherever they are placed; and the poem cannot be reconstructed with any certainty, and is probably imperfect.

LVii 7. kdiculo O, lectulo cett. codd. See M. p. 131. If mane (x 27), altered metri gr. into mane me, is the right read- ing, so here O may have altered lectulo into lecticalo. At any rate the emendation is not necessary.

lviii 5. Or (magnanimis) 'the high-minded descendants.'

lxi 77. Or (ades) ' bride, come forth,' or (claustra pandite ianuae, virgines) ' throw back the bars of the door, ye maidens,' cf. 227 claudite ostia, virgines.

79. fardel prob. from tardeo v.n. The codd. are defective here and at no, and no complete sense can be made out.

96. viderit — visura sit, translating Callimachus' oif/erai?jws.

167. Or (unus codd.) 'one special guest' (E.), at the cetia nuptialis.

200. Or (cupis cupis) ' desire what you desire.' capis of almost all codd. is, if not the original reading, a very early correction.

219. inscieis... omnibus codd. Catullus is not likely to have left one open short syllable (omnibus) in a poem in which synaphea is strictly observed, omnibus...insciis, omnibus...obviis, are proposed by Edd.

lxii 1. Or ' in heaven.'

11, 32. aequalis is read by all codd. n, by T only 32.

17. Or (convertite, T.) ' turn your minds hither.'

35. Or (eosdem codd.) ' you overtake unchanged.'

40. Or (contusus conclusus codd.) ' bruised.' convolsus T, cf. lxiv 40.

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