Although modern texts of Propertius have generally inclined to conservatism, there remains a number of cases where editors have chosen, in Housman's phrase, timidly to alter what they might without rashness have defended; or where the arguments so far advanced in favour of the best attested reading leave room for supplement.

Thus:

I. 6. 25 f. me sine, quem semper uoluit fortuna iacere,

hanc animam extremae reddere nequitiae.

extrema … nequitia Fonteine.