=6. SCILICET= seems difficult to explain in this context, and the translators ignore its presence. ILICET ('at once') should possibly be read: the corruption of the rarer word to the more common would be easy enough in view of the final _s_ of the preceding _istis_. =7. MVTER= _F1_ _Bodleianus Canon. lat. 1, saec xiii Barberinus lat. 26, saec xiii_. _Muter_ is so much choicer than the better attested _mittar_ that I have followed editors from Ciofanus to Merkel in printing it. Gronovius (_Obseruationes_ III 1) made a strong case for _muter_, citing Virgil _G_ II 50 (where however the meaning of _mutata_ is disputed), Hor _Sat_ II vii 63-64 'illa tamen se / non habitu _mutatue_ loco peccatue superne', Claudian _Rap Pros_ I 62 'rursus corporeos animae _mutantur_ in artus' (where _mittuntur_ is a variant reading, which Hall prints), and from Ovid _Tr_ V ii 73-74 'hinc ego dum _muter_, uel me Zanclaea [_Politianus_: Panchea _codd_] Charybdis / deuoret aque [_Heinsius_: atque _codd_] suis ad Styga mittat aquis', and _EP_ I i 79 'inque locum Scythico uacuum _mutabor_ ab arcu'; compare as well Cic _Balb_ 31 'ne quis inuitus ciuitate _mutetur_' and Livy V 46 11 'quod nec iniussu populi _mutari_ finibus posset'. =11. SI QVID EA EST.= See at i 17 _si quid ea est_ (p 153). =11. BENE.= 'Profitably'. Compare Tac _Ann_ III 44 'miseram pacem uel bello _bene mutari_'. The word in this sense is generally used in describing good commercial investments: see Plautus _Cur_ 679-80 'argentariis _male credi_ qui aiunt, nugas praedicant, / nam et _bene_ et male _credi_ dico', Sen _Suas_ VII v 'si _bene_ illi pecunias _crediderunt_ faeneratores', Cic _II Verr_ V 56 'ut intellegerent Mamertini _bene_ se apud istum tam multa pretia ac munera _conlocasse_', and Livy II 42 8. =11. COMMVTABITVR.= _Commutare_ was a commercial term: it is used of selling at Cic _Clu_ 129 'ad perniciem innocentis fidem suam et religionem pecunia _commutarit_', Columella XII 26 2 'reliquum mustum ... aere _commutato_', _Dig_ II xv 8 24 'si uinum pro oleo uel oleum pro uino uel quid aliud _commutauit_', and _CIL_ I 585 27. =12. SI QVID ET INFERIVS QVAM STYGA MVNDVS HABET.= Professor R. J. Tarrant notes another instance of the same idea at Sen _Thy_ 1013-14 'si quid infra Tartara est / auosque nostros'. =13. GRAMINA.= 'Weeds'. Compare _Met_ V 485-86 'lolium tribulique fatigant / triticeas messes et inexpugnabile _gramen_' and _Tr_ V xii 24 'nil nisi cum spinis _gramen_ habebit ager'; _TLL_ VI.2 2165 65 notes as well Columella IV 4 5 'omnesque herbas et praecipue _gramina_ extirpare, quae nisi manu eleguntur ... reuiuiscunt'. CARMINA, the reading of _C_, is a frequent corruption of _gramina_, occurring as a variant at _Met_ II 841 & XIV 44 and _Fast_ VI 749; it gives no obvious sense in this passage. Bentley's FLAMINA is ingenious but unattractive.