Metrical emendations
As instance of a metrical emendation we may takeThe word mulio having been miswritten multo (ch. vi. § 1), the line was emended in our MSS. to multo sufflamine consul to save the metre. Such emendations are rare in Plautus MSS., and where they do occur, cannot be referred to mediaeval scribes; for these were ignorant of Plautine metre. They belong rather to ancient editions or recensions of the plays.