{"id":1412,"date":"2016-10-01T22:07:11","date_gmt":"2016-10-02T03:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=1412"},"modified":"2016-10-15T16:47:08","modified_gmt":"2016-10-15T21:47:08","slug":"vigils-and-strigils-juvenal-3-262","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=1412","title":{"rendered":"Vigils and Strigils: Juvenal 3.262"},"content":{"rendered":"

    The man crushed by a collapsing stone-wagon never comes home, and his household, though still unaware of his death, finally gives up waiting for him (260-63):<\/p>\n

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\n        obtritum uulgo perit omne cadauer
\nmore animae. domus interea secura patellas
\niam lauat et bucca foculum excitat et sonat unctis
\nstriglibus et pleno componit lintea guto.<\/p>\n

260<\/strong> uulgo Eremita : uulgi Ω        262<\/strong> unclis P1<\/sup>R ||<\/em>\n<\/td>\n

\n260<\/em>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/blockquote>\n

One of the epithets seems out of place. As Courtney puts it,(<\/a>1<\/b><\/a>) “unctis<\/span> is a fixed epithet, as the strigils have not been used yet on this occasion” (and would hardly be put away oily if they had been used). Such a fixed or ornamental epithet seems awkward when the next clause states that the oil-bottle is still full. The inconcinnity is impossible to avoid.<\/p>\n

    A less transitory epithet for striglibus<\/em> is not hard to find: I suspect that Juvenal wrote uncis<\/em>. If someone objects that uncus<\/em>, ‘hooked’ like a fishhook, is not the same thing as ‘curved’ like a strigil, I would make two points: 1.<\/strong> Strigils are, like fishhooks, distinctly curved, though not usually 180°, and usually just at the blade end. 2.<\/strong> A Bing or Google image search on ‘strigil’ will summon dozens of examples, some much more curved than others, and a few approaching fish-hooks in hookiness. Finally, the meaningless variant unclis<\/em> in P1<\/sup>R might imply a bit of damage or smudged ink in the archetype.<\/p>\n

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(<\/a>1<\/b><\/a>) E. Courtney, A Commentary on the Satires of Juvenal<\/em> (London, 1984), ad loc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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