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 158 C. Valerius Cat u 1/ us

374. iamdudutn may be construed with cupido, 'long- expecting.'

382. Codd. have Pelei, which can hardly be dative (cf. 336). If Pelei is read, it must be taken with felieia earmina ' a song of Peleus' happiness.' Perhaps earmina is corrupt, and some such word as tempora should be substituted. But the simplest emendation is Peleo.

404. Or (penales) ' the gods of the household.'

lxv 12. Or (tegam) ' keep close or veiled in silence' E.

lxvi 15. Or (marilum) 'of their husbands' P. parumper, pavenles, an quod aventum are proposed.

19. mission or 'thrown' as Verg. Eel. in 64 malo me Galatea petit.

28. Or {quod non fortior an sit all's codd. omn.) 'which none else could venture and so win the title of braver ' E.

45. Codd. propere, al. pepulere, rupere.

77. Or {expersa) 'sprinkled with,' or explens ungiientis se, • delighting herself with.'

91. sanguinis codd., unguinis, Bentl.

93. cur iterent codd. corruerint is commonly read since Lach.

non vestris (vris) codd. vestris prob. =si ve ris, written ve siris, vestris.

94. fulgoret (or fulgerei) -fulguret. Codd. have fulgeret, but in these MSS. e and are convertible.

lxvii 5. Or (voto servisse maligno) 'lent yourself to the service of an ill-affected vow ' (whether ' of its new mistress ' (E.), or 'the old man's dying wish' (M.)) or (voto servisse maligne), 'to have carried out scurvily his wish and prayer' (M.).

12. Corrupt — verum — is mos populi; verum istud populi fab u la; verum est vox populi, &c. have been conjectured.

27 — 40 may be given either to Catullus or to the House- door.

Lxvm a 12. Or (lorruerit) 'burnt me up,' or in me quo corruerit i>enere, ' how she has rushed down upon me '; cf. Hor. Carm. 1 xix 9.