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Catullus II. 9–12

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

A. Hudson Williams
A. Hudson Williams
Affiliation:
University College of Wales, Aberystwyth
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For horribilesque we need something better than Haupt's horribile aequor (so Postgate, Merrill, Kroll, Schuster); and Mr. E. L. B. Meurig Davies (Class. Quart, xliv, 1950, p. 31) comes near the truth, I think, with his proposal horribilem niue. A noun in the ablative indicating cold to define horribilem is just what we require. That noun does not seem to me, however, likely to be niue. Read rather horribilem gelu; cf. Luc. 2. 570 ‘(Caesar) Rheni gelidis … fugit ab undis’, Claud. Rapt. 3. 321 ‘non Rheni glacies, non me Rhipaea tenebunt’, Paneg. 7(6). 6 ‘duratus gelu Rhenus’.

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Research Article
Information
The Classical Quarterly , Volume 2 , Issue 3-4 , December 1952 , pp. 186
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1952

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