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Monthly Archives: March 2016
Plain and Simple: Marcus Argentarius IV G-P (A.P. 5.89)
(Note: I hope someone will let me know if the Greek comes out wrong, and if so what browser and operating system were in use. On my screen, it looks fine except that acute accents not combined with breathings are … Continue reading
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Chicken (Pliny, Ep. 7.21)
(Note: a general bibliography for this and my other Pliniana will soon be uploaded and linked, and this note removed.) Pliny’s Epistle 7.21 seems trivial at first. It is short enough to quote in full:(1) C. Plinius Cornuto suo s. … Continue reading
Posted in Curculio: Latin, Exegesis, General, Latin Literature, POTIS
Tagged Chickens, Pliny
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“We’ve Made It Legal, but We Can’t Make It Right” (Martial 5.75)
Any problems in this little poem are exegetical – there are no significant variants: Quae legis causa nupsit tibi Laelia, Quinte, uxorem potes hanc dicere legitimam. As a punch-line, the pentameter, particularly the last word, seems rather flat. I suspect … Continue reading
Posted in Curculio: Latin, Exegesis, Latin Literature, POTIS
Tagged marriage, Martial, puns
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A Different Kind of Astronomical Conjunction (Pliny, Ep. 1.3.1)
Pliny opens the third letter of his collection, to Caninius Rufus, with a series of questions about the latter’s luxurious villa in Comum – I mark the clauses I am most interested in (1.3.1):(1) Quid agit Comum, tuae meaeque deliciae? … Continue reading
Female Turpitude Meets Male Torpitude (Catullus 11.18)
Daniél Kiss’s Catullus Online: An Online Repertory of Conjectures on Catullus is a wonderful resource, which I have found complete and accurate in whatever I have checked, but rather depressing viewed at length. Only six of the sixty-eight lines in … Continue reading
Posted in Catullus, Curculio: Latin, Latin Literature
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“I’ll put her to her pension”: A Mad World, My Masters I.ii.66
One of the more difficult passages in Middleton’s play is the soliloquy of Harebrain (aka Shortrod) as the “pure virgin” (actually a courtesan) fetches his wife (I.ii.62-69): This is the course I take; I’ll teach the married man A new … Continue reading
Posted in Curculio: English, English Literature, Etymology, POTIS
Tagged Middleton, Samuel Beckett, Schopenhaur
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A Dumb Question about Animals (Pliny, Ep. 1.20.5)
In the course of a long discussion of rhetoric addressed to Tacitus, Pliny argues that size matters in judging orations, with an extended analogy from living creatures (Epistulae 1.20.4-5):(1) Et hercule ut aliae bonae res ita bonus liber melior est … Continue reading