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Gallus and Euphorion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

D. E. Keefe
Affiliation:
Hertford College, Oxford

Extract

The editors of the new fragment of Gallus draw attention to line 6, ‘fecerunt carmina Musae’. They say ‘“fecerunt” is unusual in such a context, and to a Roman reader would inevitably suggest (not used of poets in early Greek); the Muses of Gallus provided craftsmanship as well as inspiration’. It is possible to be more precise: cf. Euphorion fr. 118 Powell

Type
Shorter Notes
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1982

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References

1 Anderson, R. D., Parsons, P. J., Nisbet, R. G. M., ‘Elegiacs by Gallus from Qasr Ibrîm’, JRS 69 (1979), 125 ff.Google Scholar

2 Groningen, B. A. Van. Euphorion (Amsterdam, 1977), p. 189.Google Scholar

3 A. S. Hollis, ‘The New Gallus, 8–9’, CQ n.s. 30 (1980), 541 f. I am grateful to Mr Hollis for discussion.