Notes on the current edition
Metamorphoses
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In the best MSS after the word etiam a word which looks like gen has been erased. It has been suggested by Helm that geniales,
cheerful, should be supplied.
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Vesana praesumptio has a double meaning which it is not easy to render into English. Lucius had stated above
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Casibus is the emendation of the Dutch editors,Colvius and Oudendorp for the MSS' meaningless casulis.
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Heinsius' emendation for the MSS' timidae. Helm's intimidae may well be right.
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A verb is required to complete the sense. Praecipitat is van der Vliet's suggestion.
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The MSS have clementer, which must surely be wrong, and Pricaeus suggested inclementer. I have, with some diffidence, written dementer.
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The MSS have meridie; but the old woman has just said that she will be back at evening, so that I have printed Helm's emendation.
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A verb seems to have dropped out of the text. Migraret is van der Vliet's suggestion.
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MSS fons. But an accusative is necessary, as Petschenig saw, unless we read dehiscente and largissimus, taking terra as an ablative.
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Colvius' ingenious emendation for the MSS' passibus.