1206. Quam periturus erat, ‘rather than that he should perish,’ apparently.
1209. Cp. Metam. v. 40.
1211. Metam. xiv. 408.
1215 f. A reference probably to the massacre of the Flemings.
1219 f. Fasti, iii. 509 f.
1221 f. Ovid, Amores, iii. 9. 11 f.
1224. Cp. Her. v. 68.
1253. Cp. Metam. vii. 599, ‘Exiguo tinxit subiectos sanguine cultros.’
1271. Perhaps ‘cessit’ is right, as in l. 1265, but the reading of C is the result of a correction, and the corrections of this manuscript are usually sound.
1279 f. If there is any construction here, it must be ‘Erumpunt lacrimae luminibus, que lumina,’ &c. For this kind of ellipse cp. l. 1501.