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Category Archives: Curculio
What Kind of Rope Makes the Best Gift? Martial 4.70.1
Turning back to Martial, here is a textual-exegetical note on one of Martial’s best epigrams. The PDF is here.
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Two of These Words Need More Os: Juvenal 9.109
Turning back to Juvenal 9, here are two conjectures on a single line, one more plausible than the other. The PDF is here.
Posted in Curculio: Latin, Juvenal
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Is This Conjecture Too Bold or Not Bold Enough? Juvenal 8.165
Turning to the other satire in Book III of Juvenal, here’s a note on Juvenal 8, yet another novelty for the 2nd edition of my web-text of Juvenal. The PDF is here.
Posted in Curculio: Latin, Juvenal
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Not Often, but I’m Hedging My Bets Here: Juvenal 9.74
Still working on Book III of Juvenal, today’s paper is a conjecture on Juvenal 9, attempting to improve on one of Housman’s. This will be another novelty in the 2nd edition of my web-text of Juvenal. The PDF is here.
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Squeezing Two Lemons: Juvenal 7.41 and 7.43
Today’s paper is again on Juvenal 7, with two notes on tiny details of exegesis. The PDF is here.
Sex and Money: Juvenal 7.123
Today’s paper is again on Juvenal 7, but a new idea, not yet in my web-edition of Juvenal (here). If anyone can refute it, it never will be. The PDF is here.
Put Your Relatives in their Place: Juvenal 7.27-29
Today’s paper explains a transposition I first published in 2005 in my web-edition of Juvenal (here). The PDF is here.
Posted in Curculio: Latin, Juvenal
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Making Change for a Tripod
Today’s paper is on a Greek topic for a change (hmm: just noticed that’s a pun): ‘Making Change for a Tripod: A Footnote on Homeric Economics (Iliad 23.736-37)’. The PDF is here.
Two Problems in Persius 2.61-68
Today’s paper is another (quadrisyllabic) Persïanum. The PDF is here.
A Second Double Entendre in Persius 4.5
After working on three different notes on Martial, I decided to finish one of my (quadrisyllabic) Persïana for today’s paper. Though allusively written, this one is not appropriate for younger readers, and may be found here in PDF form.
Posted in Curculio: Latin, Persius
Tagged double entendres, hares, lions, puns, weevils
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One More Letter to Change: Martial 4.52.2
The eighth of my Martial papers for August 2017, titled as above, is here in PDF form. It explains one of the conjectures published (with a ‘temptavi’) in my 2007 on-line text of Martial IV.
Horace, Iambi (Epodi) 11.19
Besides Martial, I am also working on an on-line edition of Horace’s Iambi or (if you prefer) Epodi. I have already posted notes on I. 10, 12, and 16. Here is another, in PDF form, on I. 11, titled as … Continue reading
Looks Good ‘To Me’: Three Notes on Martial 6.63
The seventh of my Martial papers for August 2017, titled as above, is here in PDF form.
What is the First Poem in Martial, Book I?
The sixth and longest (so far) of my Martial papers for August 2017, titled as above, is here in PDF form.
Posted in Curculio: Latin, Martial
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When Did Ovid Die?
For Ovid’s 2059th birthday, here’s a note on his death-year. It could use some footnotes, but this should do for a funeral offering. We’re all celebrating commemorating the 2000th anniversary of the death of Ovid this year, but the date … Continue reading
Bad Temperament: Seneca, E.M. 2.3
Just posted: a note on Senecan prose, titled as above. The PDF is here. Comments welcome.
Peripatetic Conjectures
I try to walk an hour a day, and find that memorizing verse is an excellent way to pass the time: usually Latin verse, most often Horace or Catullus. I can’t keep more than a dozen or so texts in … Continue reading
Posted in Curculio: Latin, General, Horace
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It Takes an O to Make a Ring: Catullus 50.21
Just uploaded: a textual note on Catullus, titled as above: PDF. Comments, anyone?
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Catullus 16.14: Ring Composition with a Twist?
Just uploaded: another conjecture, this one in Catullus: PDF. I suspect it will amuse more than it persuades.
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Blame the Author, or the Scribe? (Pliny, Ep. 10.4.3)
Just uploaded: another conjecture, this one in the letters of the Younger Pliny: PDF. Comments?