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Virgil, Aeneid ii. 446f

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2009

Jonathan Foster
Affiliation:
University of Liverpool

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Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1972

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References

1 T.L.L. iii. 871. if. includes the passage in the transferred sense intellegere, oddly quoting ‘quando ultima cerno’.

2 Livy has the expression ultimum discrimen five times, e.g. xxxvii. 53. 16, cum discrimine ultimo simul vitae regnique:this, involving a noun derived from a compound of cerno and the word ultimus, would seem support the above interpretation. Cf. also viii. 8. 1, in ultimo etiam certamine.

3 For further examples in this apparently epic/tragic sense armis decernere, contendere see T.L.L. iii. 864. 83 ff.