{"id":1400,"date":"2016-09-29T21:36:26","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T02:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=1400"},"modified":"2016-09-29T21:38:47","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T02:38:47","slug":"mood-and-voice-a-footnote-on-horace-epode-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=1400","title":{"rendered":"Mood and Voice: A Footnote on Horace, Epode<\/i> 10"},"content":{"rendered":"

    In their commentaries on the Epodes<\/em>, both D. Mankin (Cambridge, 1995) and L. C. Watson (Oxford, 2003) note the appropriateness of the name Inachia in 12.17:<\/p>\n

\n\n\n
\n    “Inachia langues minus ac me;
\nInachiam ter nocte potes, mihi semper ad unum
\n    mollis opus. pereat male, quae te
\nLesbia quaerenti taurum monstrauit inertem”<\/em>\n<\/td>\n		\n 
15<\/em>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/blockquote>\n

As Mankin puts it: “The reference to Io, the ‘Inachian heifer’, is more pointed here with H. about to be described as a ‘bull’ (17).”<\/p>\n

    Neither editor mentions a similar subtlety a few pages or columns before (10.15-20):<\/p>\n

\n\n\n
\no quantus instat nauitis sudor tuis
\n    tibique pallor luteus
\net illa non uirilis eiulatio
\n    preces et auersum ad Iouem,
\nIonius udo cum remugiens sinus
\n    Noto carinam ruperit!<\/em>\n<\/td>\n		\n15
 
 
 
 
20<\/em>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/blockquote>\n

More obviously than Inachia, the Ionian Sea is named after the cow-girl Io. It is therefore a nice touch that it ‘moos back’ at Maevius and his storm-tossed crew. It seems to me that the participle remugiens<\/em> is not just ‘bellowing’ (Watson) like any angry mammal, but more specifically ‘mooing’. Though mugire<\/em> and remugire<\/em> are used of a wide variety of animals and natural phenomena, and even a Sibyl (Vergil, Aeneid<\/em> 6.99), mugire<\/em> is the vox propria<\/em> (not the name, but the voice) of cows and bulls, as seen in (e.g.) Livy 1.7, Juvenal 14.286, and (very significantly) Epode<\/em> 2.11-12, where mugientium . . . errantis greges<\/em>, with the mooing creatures not further specified, is generally taken to refer to cattle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    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 →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,200],"tags":[315,247,250],"class_list":["post-1400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-critical-texts","category-curculio-l","tag-horace","tag-iamb","tag-io"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1400"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1405,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions\/1405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}