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Two notes on Latin poets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2013

Roland Mayer
Roland Mayer
Affiliation:
Bedford College, University of London
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Extract

(i) On Statius Theb. 9.248—50

talis agit sparsos mediisque in fluctibus heros

frena manu pariter pariter regit arm a, pedumque

remigio sustentat equum.

249 sq. pedumque … equum Pω: pedum se (quem Housman) … equus Jortin

Klotz rejected both Jortin's and Housman's conjectures on the grounds that they were ‘contra sensum non minus quam contra metricam Stati’. It will be my purpose in this note to demonstrate that Klotz knew what he was talking about when he said that the conjectures fail to accord with Statius's metrical practice.

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Research Article
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Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society (Second Series) , Volume 22 , 1976 , pp. 56 - 59
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Copyright © The Author(s). Published online by Cambridge University Press 1976

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NOTES

1. Thus the recent editors of his collected classical papers should not have proposed to correct ‘suggested’ to ‘suggest’.

2. The epithets of course agree with ‘animula’ as subject of ‘abibis’, and not with the vocative. But in a plain text it is hard otherwise to dissociate them from ‘loca’.