[47] Admovi iugulo, sine me tibi vera fateri. Some, instead of this line, read,
At rursus monitis, iussuque coacta parentis. Heinsius thinks that both this and the following verse ought to be rejected, as the interpolations of some ignorant grammarian, who imagined them necessary to fill up and connect the sense: and the same commentator observes, that the coherence is plain beyond exception, if we merely change the sed of the next verse into et. The remark is ingenious, and seems to be well founded.This text is part of:
P. Ovidius Naso. The Epistles of Ovid, translated into English prose, as near the original as the different idioms of the Latin and English languages will allow; with the Latin text and order of construction on the same page; and critical, historical, geographical, and classical notes in English, from the very best commentators both ancient and modern; beside a very great number of notes entirely new. Anne Mahoney. edited for Perseus. London. J. Nunn, Great-Queen-Street; R. Priestly, 143, High-Holborn; R. Lea, Greek-Street, Soho; and J. Rodwell, New-Bond-Street. 1813.
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