ii. met. 8. 6. Lat. 'Ut fluctus auidum mare Certo fine coerceat.' Chaucer has: 'that the see, greedy to flowen, constreyned with a certein ende hise floodes.' Mr. Stewart understands 'greedy to flowen' to refer to 'fluctus auidum.' It seems to me that this was merely Chaucer's first idea of the passage, and that he afterwards meant 'hise floodes' to translate 'fluctus,' but forgot to strike out 'to flowen.' I do not defend the translation. iii. pr. 11. 86. Lat. 'sede;' Eng. 'sete.' This is quite right. Mr. Stewart quotes the Eng. version as having 'feete,' but this is only a corrupt reading, though found in the best MS. Any one who is acquainted with M. E. MSS. will easily guess that 'feete' is merely mis-copied from 'seete,' with a long _s_; and, indeed, _sete_ is the reading of the black-letter editions. There is a blunder here, certainly; only it is not the author's, but due to the scribes. iv. pr. 6. 176. Lat. 'quidam me quoque excellentior:' Eng. 'a philosophre, the more excellent by me.' The M. E. use of _by_ is ambiguous; it frequently means 'in comparison with.' v. met. 5. 14. Lat. 'male dissipis:' Eng. 'wexest yvel out of thy wit.' In this case, _wexest out of thy wit_ translates _dissipis_; and _yvel_, which is here an adverb, translates _male_. Of course we must also make allowances for the variations in Chaucer's Latin MS. from the usually received text. Here we are much assisted by MS. C., which, as explained below, appears to contain a copy of the very text which he consulted, and helps to settle several doubtful points. To take two examples. In Book ii. met. 5. 17, Chaucer has 'ne hadde nat deyed yit _armures_,' where the usual Lat. text has 'tinxerat _arua_.' But many MSS. have _arma_; and, of these, MS. C. is one. Once more, in Book ii. met. 2. 11, Chaucer has 'sheweth _other_ gapinges,' where the usual Lat. text has '_Altos_ pandit hiatus.' But some MSS. have _Alios_; and, of these, MS. C. is one.