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Rh other emendations are lateque et cominus Avant.; lateque comeis obit omnia M.

119. lamentatast, laetabatur, luctabatur, are proposed.

140. Or (miscra) ' these miseries.'

174. If in Creta is read, religasset would be 'moored,' 'made fast.' See note on 84.

178. Idomeneos, prob. = 'Cretan.' Dia is Naxos, but the emendation is conjectural; the codd. have Ydoneos, idoneos, idmoneos.

200, 201. mente, as often in Catullus, is little more than an adverbial sign.

205. Or (quo motu = cuius motu) 'at his gesture.'

213. Or (castae) 'as she left the walls of the virgin goddess.'

227. Or (decet) 'as the sail, &c., befits our grief.'

254. If quae tum is read, we must suppose a lacuna after 253: if qui tum (of codd.), a lacuna after 255, unless we read horum 256, with Lachmann: if quicum (B.), bacchantes must be taken as = . 254, 255 are more appropriate to Bacchanalians than to Satyrs and Sileni.

270. proclivas or 'into ridges.'

283. Or (parit) 'brings to birth,' 'creates.'

287. Or (doctis) ' learned.' Other emendations are claris (Ital.), crebris (Lach.).

Minosim is corrupt. Other readings are Haemonisin (P.), Magnesson (E.), Naiasin, Meliasin.

296. silici may be abl., or (Scythica) 'with Scythian chain.'

309. Or (annoso niveae) 'snow-white bands rested on their aged heads'; codd. have at roseo niveae.

320. Haec=hae.

330. The codd. have quae tibi flexo animo mentis perfundat amorem. I print Muretus' emendation, which is accepted by almost all editors.

362. morti, not = cadaveri, but Polyxena is spoken of as a victim due for the death of Achilles, i.e. to the dead Achilles.