LIB. VI.
Latin Verses. i. 6. ruit seems to be transitive, ‘casts down.’
i. 7. Rather involved in order: ‘on the lips which Bacchus intoxicates and which are plunged in sleep.’
4. mystymed, ‘unhappily produced.’ In other places, as i. 220, iii. 2458, the word seems to mean to order or arrange wrongly. The OE. ‘mistīmian’ means to happen amiss.
7. dedly, ‘mortal,’ i. e. subject to death.
34. wext, ‘he waxeth’: for the omission of the pronoun see note on i. 1895 and cp. ll. 149, 213, 367, below.
57. For the form of expression cp. i. 380, ii. 2437, and below, l. 106.
59. sterte is for ‘stert,’ pres. tense.
70. in vers, that is ‘in order.’ The word ‘vers’ is given in Godefroy’s Dictionary with the sense ‘state,’ ‘situation’; e. g. Rom. de la Rose, 9523 ff.,
‘Malement est changies li vers,