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- Asyndeton and its Interpretation in Latin Literature
- Frontispiece
- Asyndeton and its Interpretation in Latin Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Part 1 Introduction
- Part 2 ‘Grammatical’ Types
- Part 3 Semantic Types
- Part 4 Structures
- Part 5 Genres And Texts
- Chapter XXII Laws and Prayers
- Chapter XXIII Plautus
- Chapter XXIV Virgil and Early High-Style Poetry
- Chapter XXV Lucilius
- Chapter XXVI Cicero
- Chapter XXVII Catullus
- Chapter XXVIII Caesar, Bellum Ciuile: Asyndeton and Textual Criticism
- Chapter XXIX Horace
- Chapter XXX The Annalists, Sallust and Tacitus
- Chapter XXXI Livy
- Part 6 Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Subject Index
- Index Mainly of Selected Pairs and Longer Sequences
- Selective Index Locorum
Chapter XXVIII - Caesar, Bellum Ciuile: Asyndeton and Textual Criticism
from Part 5 - Genres And Texts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 May 2021
- Asyndeton and its Interpretation in Latin Literature
- Frontispiece
- Asyndeton and its Interpretation in Latin Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Part 1 Introduction
- Part 2 ‘Grammatical’ Types
- Part 3 Semantic Types
- Part 4 Structures
- Part 5 Genres And Texts
- Chapter XXII Laws and Prayers
- Chapter XXIII Plautus
- Chapter XXIV Virgil and Early High-Style Poetry
- Chapter XXV Lucilius
- Chapter XXVI Cicero
- Chapter XXVII Catullus
- Chapter XXVIII Caesar, Bellum Ciuile: Asyndeton and Textual Criticism
- Chapter XXIX Horace
- Chapter XXX The Annalists, Sallust and Tacitus
- Chapter XXXI Livy
- Part 6 Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Subject Index
- Index Mainly of Selected Pairs and Longer Sequences
- Selective Index Locorum
Summary
In this chapter I consider asyndeton in Caesar’s Civ., of which there is now a reliable text with apparatus (Damon 2015a). My aim is not merely to classify asyndeta but to consider whether there are criteria that may be used by an editor in deciding on the text when manuscripts have variation between coordination and asyndeton; the chapter is mainly about textual criticism. The passages discussed, which embrace the totality of possible asyndeta (bimembria) in the work, are numbered in bold.
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- Asyndeton and its Interpretation in Latin LiteratureHistory, Patterns, Textual Criticism, pp. 496 - 511Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021