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Paralipomena: Tibullus.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Extract

That the hiatus in 33 is inadmissible in an Augustan poet has long been recognised by the critical. Of the three other examples, Prop. II xv. 1 ‘o me felicem! o nox mihi Candida et o tu,’ ib. xxxii. 45 ‘haec eadem ante illam (add iam) inpune et Lesbia fecit,’ and Manil. I 795 ‘emeritus caelum et Clausi magna propago,’ only the first can claim any excuse, on the ground of the speaker's excitement and the pause after felicem, but, metre apart, even there ‘nox, o’ seems a better order. But the corruption has had perforce to be retained in our texts through lack of a reasonable correction. The line is perfectly sound Latin as it stands and, though not poetry, is sense.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1912

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References

page 40 note 1 L. Mueller (407) disputes the authorship.Google Scholar

page 41 note 2 Of the apparition of Romulus and so a good commentary on our passage.Google Scholar