Notes on the current edition
Metamorphoses
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Cuius must necessarily refer to the grove, and not to the river, so that the MSS' gurgites cannot stand. Van der Vliet's frutices is a possible suggestion.
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This is the correction of the older editors for the unintelligible aurive cole of the MSS.
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So Salmasius for the MSS' istius orae.
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Why should Psyche be sorry that she had listened to the reed, as the MSS (reading paenitendo) imply? The exact opposite is the case, and is supplied by Petschenig's emendation as in the text.
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So Petschenig with great probability for the MSS' exarto.
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The MSS here read minantes or potantes, showing signs of erasure and alteration. Permittentes is due to Bluemner, who
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The MSS have recurrunt relatori taedio. Van der Vlietl proposed reliqua ipsi laturi for the middle word, and I have followed him, omitting the ipsi.
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The MSS are here very uncertain and have been altered and erased. Mollibo is Leo's suggestion, which I combine with the comptas (MSS compta) of Kronenberg.
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This word is not in the MSS. Some participle governing nares seems to have dropped out.