Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-8ctnn Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-26T09:30:45.205Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Artake and Hylaea in Propertius 1.8.25–6*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2012

Francis Cairns
Francis Cairns
Affiliation:
The Florida State University
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

Elegy 1.8 is Propertius' propemptikon for Cynthia, which starts with the poet begging Cynthia not to go off to Illyria with his rival. Once Propertius has abandoned hope of her staying, he modulates into the good wishes for Cynthia's voyage (17–18) which are standard in this genre of content. He himself will continue his elegiac outpourings at her door (21–2), and will accost and interrogate sailors about which sea-port Cynthia has reached on her journey (23–4). Then in lines 25–6 Propertius fantasises about Cynthia settling abroad; he mentions two potential foreign locations – in the MSS they are denoted by Atraciis (25) and Hylaeis (26) – but he remains confident that she will nevertheless be his in the future. In the Teubner edition of Propertius, Paolo Fedeli retained the MSS reading Atraciis (NFL) and the reading Hylaeis implied by the MSS (Hi(y)le(y)is NFL), and he printed the couplet as:

      et dicam ‘Licet Atraciis considat in oris,
      et licet Hylaeis, illa futura mea est.’

Type
Research Article
Information
The Cambridge Classical Journal , Volume 57 , December 2011 , pp. 1 - 8
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s). Published online by Cambridge University Press 2011

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

WORKS CITED

Asheri, D., Lloyd, A., Corcella, A. (2007) A commentary on Herodotus Books I–IV, ed. by Murray, O., Moreno, A., Oxford.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Butrica, J. L. (1996) ‘Two two-part poems in Propertius Book I (1.8; 1.11 and 12)’, Papers of the Leeds International Latin Seminar 9, 83–91.Google Scholar
Cairns, F. (1972) Generic composition in Greek and Roman poetry, Edinburgh.Google Scholar
Cairns, F. (2006) Sextus Propertius: the Augustan elegist, Cambridge.Google Scholar
Cameron, A. (2004) Greek mythography in the Roman world, American Classical Studies 48, Oxford.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Fedeli, P. (1980) Sesto Properzio: il primo libro delle elegie: introduzione, testo critico e commento, Accademia Toscana di Scienze e Lettere La Colombaria: Studi 53, Florence.Google Scholar
Fedeli, P. (1984, 1994) Sexti Properti elegiarum libri IV (1st edn.) Stuttgart; (2nd edn.) Stuttgart and Leipzig.Google Scholar
Harrison, S. J. (2007) Generic enrichment in Vergil and Horace, Oxford.Google Scholar
Heyworth, S. J. (2007a) Sexti Properti Elegos critico apparatu instructos, Oxford Classical Text, Oxford.Google Scholar
Heyworth, S. J. (2007b) Cynthia: a companion to the text of propertius, Oxford.Google Scholar
Hinds, S. (1998) Allusion and intertext: dynamics of appropriation in Roman poetry, Cambridge.Google Scholar
Hollis, A. S. (2007) Fragments of Roman poetry c.60 BC–AD 20: edited with an introduction, translation, and commentary, Oxford.Google Scholar
Kindstrand, J. F. (1981) Anacharsis, the legend and the apophthegmata, Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis: Studia Graeca Upsaliensia 16, Uppsala.Google Scholar
Lightfoot, J. L. (1999) Parthenius of Nicaea: the poetical fragments and the Ἐρωτικὰ Παθήματα, Oxford.Google Scholar
Palmer, A. (1880) Sexti Properti Elegiarum Libri, London and Dublin.Google Scholar
Schrijvers, P. H. (2009) ‘In praise of Messalla: Hellenistic geography in three Panegyric poems’ in Harder, M. A., Regtuit, R. F., Wakker, G. C. (eds.) Nature and science in Hellenistic poetry, Hellenistica Groningana 15, Leuven etc., 149–76.Google Scholar