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32. arguta or ' creaking.'

44. Or taking abrupto as = obrcpto (M.) ' though her husband was torn from her ' {abrupto sidere Verg. yEn. xn 451 might thus mean 'when the sun is hidden ').

51. que vetet id codd., quaene etiam (Heins.) is commonly read. Other conjectures are quae taetre id (M.), qualiter id (et?) (E.), quae vel idem (M.R.)

53. Or ' ah, pleasing light of life taken from my miserable brother! '

100. Or fart a as 96.

10 1. at quia for atque of codd. atqui is also read.

102. Or ' take up the weary burden of the decrepit father'; with allusion to a supposed episode of Aeneas and Anchises in the lost verses.

105. Or (mira) ' wondrous.'

117. Nothing satisfactory can be made out of terrain dedit aufert of codd. M. translates terrain ' firm ground.' Under aufert some name {Anser, Ufens, Afer) may be concealed.

lxxii 8. ' Kindles perforce the more, but grows less kind ' (H.V.M.) or ' to love her more, but less to wish her well.'

lxxii 1 3, 4. P. punctuates omnia sunt ingrata, nihil fecisse benigne; immo taedet obestque et (ei?) magis atque niagis, for imiuo etiam tedet obestque magisque magis of codd. Other emendations of 4 are prodest, tarn iuvat, iuverit.

lxxvii 6. Or (pectus) ' the trusted breast on which my friendship leaned ' (E.).

lxxxiii 6. 'The heart flames, the mouth proclaims' (H.V.M. ), or (coquiiur) 'she is burning and glowing.' hoc est commonly introduces a proverb.

lxxxiv 5. Or (liber) 'the freeman,' i.e. the first of the line who was freeborn.

xci 3. Or (non nossem Avant.), ' it was not that I did not know you [as I did].' cognossem, 'supposed but false reason' (E.). cognossem would imply known probity.

xcv 3. Hortensius is corrupt. M. supplies the lacuna by Hatrianus in una | vcrsiculorum anno pufidus evomuit.