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Lucretiana*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2013

W.S. Watt
W.S. Watt
Affiliation:
Aberdeen
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1.192–3 huc accedit uti sine certis imbribus anni

laetificos nequeat fetus summittere tellus

Does anni go with fetus (rather than, as everybody seems to take it, with imbribus; ‘fixed rain-showers in the year’, Bailey)? TLL 6.638.60f. adduces Sisenna, Hist. 100 fetum omnem … eius anni; Columella 10.256f. uersicoloribus anni / fetibus; Pliny 12.83 annuo fetu (for annus itself in the sense of anni fetus see OLD 8). Certis will then mean ‘reliable’, ‘assured’.

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Research Article
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Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society (Second Series) , Volume 49 , 2003 , pp. 158 - 160
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Copyright © The Author(s). Published online by Cambridge University Press 2003

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* The following modern editions are referred to: H. A. J. Munro (Cambridge, 1864; 4th edn., 1886); W. A. Merrill (New York, 1907); C. Bailey (with translation and commentary, Oxford, 1947); K. Müller (Zurich, 1975). I am very grateful to Professors E. J. Kenney, K. Müller, and M. F. Smith, for commenting on an earlier version of these notes; also to an anonymous referee for helpful observations.