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Editor’s Notepg 145Editor’s NoteCXI
- 1That a bride be content, Aufillena, to live with one man
- 2 Is praise among the highest of her praises,
- 3But it's right for any to sleep with anyone she chooses
- Editor’s Note4 Rather than mother cousins by her uncle.
Editor’s Note
'The poet manages to cap the charge made in CX' (Goold).
Editor’s Note
4 fratres: = fratres patrueles 'cousins'; patruus is 'father's brother', cf. LXXIV.
