Tag Archives: Horace

Mood and Voice: A Footnote on Horace, Epode 10

Posted on Thursday: September 29, 2016 by Michael Hendry

    In their commentaries on the Epodes, both D. Mankin (Cambridge, 1995) and L. C. Watson (Oxford, 2003) note the appropriateness of the name Inachia in 12.17:     “Inachia langues minus ac me; Inachiam ter nocte potes, mihi semper ad unum     mollis … Continue reading →

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Two Conjectures on Horace’s 16th Epode

Posted on Tuesday: September 27, 2016 by Michael Hendry

    Horace introduces his proposed solution for the corruption of contemporary Rome with a Greek precedent (17-22):(1) nulla sit hac potior sententia: Phocaeorum     velut profugit exsecrata civitas agros atque Lares patrios habitandaque fana     apris reliquit et rapacibus lupis,        20 ire pedes quocumque … Continue reading →

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Not Just Any Old Things: Horace, Ep. 1.2.57

Posted on Wednesday: September 21, 2016 by Michael Hendry

    Forms of res are found three times in eight lines in Horace’s second epistle: rebus in 50, res (singular) in 51, rebus again in 57. This seems excessive, and the last instance is dubious in itself.(1) The context is clear … Continue reading →

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Horace Kippled

Posted on Saturday: January 3, 2009 by Michael Hendry

D. A. West, in Horace Odes I: Carpe Diem, Oxford 1995, 6-7: In Horace the tone is often elusive. Perhaps the nearest thing in English is the parody [of Odes 1.1] by Kipling in ‘A Diversity of Creatures’: There are … Continue reading →

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Worst Classical Typos

Posted on Monday: July 31, 2006 by Michael Hendry

Here are my nominations: 1. In a Greek text: In Volume I of R. D. Dawe’s Teubner Sophocles (1975), the first word of Oedipus Tyrannus is misspelled. The fact that it’s a one-letter word is particularly impressive:  τέκνα Κάδμου … Continue reading →

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Horace In Rossini

Posted on Sunday: November 27, 2005 by Michael Hendry

In honor of the 2012th anniversary of the death of Horace, here is the opening of Act I, Scene XIV of Rossini’s delightful Il Turco in Italia, which I saw and heard for the first time today (on DVD). The … Continue reading →

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