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male, ‘unhappily’ for himself. Cf. II. 148 (of Phaethon) “male optatos axes”, Hor. C. I. iii. 28, “audax Iapeti genus ignem fraude mala gentibus intulit”. The missing of this sense led to several alterations of the text, and also to the construction of male with nimium.
Charles Simmons. Metamorphoseon XIII. xiv. The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books XIII. and XIV. Edited, with introduction, analysis, and notes by Charles Simmons. New York. Macmillan. 1899.
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