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Additional Notes on Claudian
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 February 2009
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Mr. Alan Ker in C.Q., N.S. vii (1957), 151–8, proposes to alter the text of Claudian in numerous places where the tradition appears to me to be blameless, in some cases substituting for readings which seem characteristic and admirable others which seem less so. Claudian is an elegant poet, whose mastery of language many regard as comparable with that of the Silver Age poets, and Mr. Ker's dismissal of him (p. 154) as ‘a simple writer, with a small and unambitious vocabulary’ does less than justice to his powers. I would suggest, in particular, the following points for consideration.
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page 193 note 1 ‘and this metaphor, of the dye’, continues Mr. Ker, as he alters uitiis cinclus into u. tinctus (see below), ‘is sufficiently trite be his’.
page 193 note 2 Here the ablative is that of the measure of difference.
page 195 note 1 His interpretation of 146 I find obscure: ‘His tracks, his wake, was extending out with the aid of the fish's tail, lit. the horn divided at the point where the fish was joined to the man.’
page 195 note 2 There are several examples in Statius. The parallel use of 
occurs, e.g., in Eur. Bacch. 1134, but seems infrequent.
page 195 note 3 Compare (a) 145 above ‘undosi uerrebant brachia crines’ and (b) Stil. 2. 248 ‘uestigia uerrit caerulus … amictus’ (Heinsius).
page 195 note 4 Examples of bovine as well as equine loofs occur.
page 195 note 5 For C.'s borrowings from various Greek writers see Birt's Introd. lxxii.
page 195 note 6 For the representation of T. with a iouble tail see P.-W. viiA. 267, Roscher v. 156–7.
page 195 note 7 Met. 1. 184, Trist. 4. 7. 17.