The sisters return home, more certain than ever that Psȳchē is in fact married to a god.

Zephyrī…sublīmātae: see 5.5.7, where Psȳchē asks Zephyr to deliver her sisters safely from the cliff as he had done for her.

flōrentī lānūgine barbam īnstruēns: “making his beard ready with a blossoming down”; cf. 5.7.4 for Psȳchē’s earlier description of Cupid’s beard. (On lānūgō, see L&S for definition and Media for image. )

Quis ille?: This is the same question that breaks into the prologue to ask who the narrator is. Having the sisters ask this question suggests that they are the same kind of inquisitive listener/reader as the lector scrupulosus (9.30.1) of the novel as a whole.

mī soror: note the masculine vocative form, consistent with the sisters’ sometimes masculine presentation; cf. 5.9.6. Apuleius seems to be the first in a tradition of later writers utilizing the masculine for feminine forms (Kenney ad loc.).

quōrum utrum vērum est: Here, the nominative neuter singular form of vērum is being used rather than the conjunction: “whichever of them it truly is.”

māter audierit: “is to be called mother” (L&S s.v. audiō II.D)

quam concolōrēs: equivalent to quam + superlative: “as similar in color as possible.”