Part 41

A free translation of the frigid original--

"Arma tenenti Omnia dat qui justa negat."

Old ed. "Lalius."

Old ed. "Articks Rhene." ("Rhene" is the old form of "Rhine.")

So old ed. Dyce's correction "or groaning woman's womb" seems hardly necessary. (The original has "plenaeque in viscera partu conjugis.")

"Numina miscebit castrensis flamma Monetae."

Old ed. "bowde."

Fetches.

The original has--

"Castraque quae, Vogesi curvam super ardua rupem, Pugnaces pictis cohibebant Lingonas armis."

Dyce conjectures that Marlowe's copy read Lingones.

Old ed. "bloats."

"Tunc rura Nemossi Qui tenet et ripas Aturi."

Marlowe seems to have read here very ridiculously, "gaudetque amato [instead of amoto] Santonus hoste."--Dyce.

Marlowe has converted the name of a tribe into that of a country.

The approved reading is "longisque leves Suessones in armis."

"Optimus excusso Leucus Rhemusque lacerto."

"Et qui te laxis imitantur, Sarmata, bracchis Vangiones."

Marlowe has mistaken "Sarmata," a Sarmatian, for the country Sarmatia.

The old ed. gives "fell Mercury (Joue)," and in the next line "where it seems." "Jove" written, as a correction, in the MS. above "it" was supposed by the printer to belong to the previous line.

The original has--

"Hunc inter Rhenum populos Alpesque jacentes, / Finibus Arctois patriaque a sede revulsos, / Pone sequi."/ ("Populos" is the subject and "Hunc" the object of "sequi." For "Hunc" the best editions give "Tunc.")

"Parts" must be pronounced as a dissyllable.

"Praecipitem populum."

"Serieque haerentia longa / Agmina prorumpunt."

"Urbem populis, victisque frequentem Gentibus."--Old ed. "captaines."

"Fulgura fallaci micuerunt crebra sereno."

The original has, "jugis nutantibus." Dyce reads "tops,"--an emendation against which Cunningham loudly protests. "Laps" is certainly more emphatic.