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Sub aqua, sub aqua: submerged repetition in Ovid and Rutilius Namatianus*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2013

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We may begin with Quintilian 9.3.44: prioris sententiae uerbum ultimum ac sequentis primum frequenter est idem, quo quidem schemate utuntur poetae saepius. This is indeed a common phenomenon, and textual corruption is a common consequence; one of the two repeated words is lost by haplography and the gap is filled with a metrical interpolation; this type of corruption is as old as the archetype of Vergil; cf. Aen. 10.705, Cisseis regina Parin; <Paris> urbe paterna, where Paris was lost and creat inserted; Paris was restored by Bentley. Similarly at Ov. Tr. 1.11.12 all the MSS have omnis ab hac cura mens releuata mea est, and cura leuata is restored from CIL 6.9632; cf.

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