Typo in Poetry by Taras Shevchenko

[Jorge González Belmar]

https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/taras-shevchenko/poetry/alexander-jardine-hunter_ethel-voynich_paul-selver_florence-randal-livesay

"And then he opes his lips to say"  maybe should say "And then he opens  his lips to say".

I checked the Gutenberg source and the page scans, and they both say "opes", but I couldn't find the word in a dictionary.

Please disregard if I'm mistaken.

JGB

[Alex Cabal]

Weijia, thoughts?

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[Jorge González Belmar]

So, I was looking at threads, and one for a supposed mispelling turned out to be an archaic spelling, so I checked in the referenced dictionary, and found that "ope" is an archaic form  of "open", so the correction should not be necessary.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ope

[Weijia Cheng]

Yep, I just took "opes" to be a deliberately archaic/poetic translation. I don't think it should be changed.