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Monthly Archives: March 2017
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.
A is for Accidence: Juvenal 14.214
Just posted: a note on Juvenal, titled as above. The PDF is here. Comments welcome.
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There’s More than One Kind of Filthy Lefty: Catullus 12.1-3
Just posted: a note on Catullus, titled as above. The PDF is here. Help with the final question would be much appreciated: perhaps pictorial representations of convivia will answer it.
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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
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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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Proleptic Mountains? (Horace, I. 16.28)
Just uploaded: an exegetical note on ‘Proleptic Mountains’ in Horace, Iambi (Epodi) 16: PDF.
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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?
An Inadvertent Conjecture: Horace, C. 3.1.5
Just uploaded: another conjecture, this one of arguable authorship: PDF. Comments are even more welcome than usual. I’m hoping someone can answer the question just before the post scriptum.
Two Kinds of Textual Conjecture in One: Horace, I. 12.12
I have just written another textual note (a page and a half – 585 words), this one a really obvious, but apparently original, emendation of one of Horace’s dirtiest poems. Here is the link to the PDF. As always, comments … Continue reading
Martial 8.6.8
I have just written a textual note (half a page – 185 words) on a word in Martial 8.6 – one of his catalogue poems. Here is the link to the PDF. As always, comments will be very much appreciated, … Continue reading
Catullus 33: Helping Out in the Family Business?
I have just written an exegetical note (2 pages – 476 words) on Catullus 33 – one of the “few poems which for good reason are rarely read” left out of Fordyce’s edition. Rather than pasting in the whole note … Continue reading
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