The sisters return home, feigning grief. Cupid warns Psȳchē against  trusting her sisters and revealing his secrets. He tells her that she is pregnant.

prō: “as if it were” (Kenney ad loc.).

totīsque… absconditīs: ablative absolute.

proinde ut merēbantur: “just as they deserved” (Kenney ad loc.),

trahentēs…lacerantēs: both participles are nominative, describing the sisters.

deterrentēs: This is the main manuscript reading but it does not quite make sense within the context of the sentence. The point is that the sisters have re-inflamed their parents’ grief through their own fake mourning. A defensible translation might be:  “suddenly discouraging their parents, as well, with perfectly renewed grief” (Kenney ad loc.)

vidēsne: “Do you not see… ?” (Kenney ad loc.)

longē: modifies firmiter.

lupulae: Diminutive of lupa, meaning “prostitute” (lit. “she-wolf”). The diminutive form still carries the same meaning and negative connotations. (Kenney ad loc.)

quārum summa est: “the crux of which is…”

suādeant: While suādeō normally takes a dat. + object clause introduced by ut , here it takes an acc. + objective infinitive.

Ergō igitur: pleonasm commonly used for emphasis by Apuleius.

sermōnem cōnferās: cf. ōra cōnferat, Psyche’s request in 5.6.4.

cōnferās, audiās, respondeās: 2nd person present subjunctive + nē (or another negative) is a form of negative command usually found in poetry (AG §450 n.3).

prō…prōque: both mean “on account of.”

sī… mortālem: interpreted here as a mixed condition in which the fut. perf. indicative tēxeris represents a more emphatic future more vivid construction, and the perf. subjunctive profānāverīs a future less vivid. Cupid’s word choice (sēcrēta, silentiō, profānāverīs) implicitly figures their relationship as a mystery cult.