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Tibulliana1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2013

Guy Lee
Affiliation:
St John's College, Cambridge

Extract

      I. I. 37–40 adsitis, diui, neu uos e paupere mensa
      dona nec e puris spernite fictilibus.
      fictilia antiquus primum sibi fecit agrestis
      pocula, de facili composuitque luto.

The comma after pocula in line 40 is the accepted punctuation. But fictilibus in line 38 is a noun and the same word immediately repeated in a different case must naturally be taken by any reader as a noun too. Therefore comma after agrestis; the pentameter is then a line like 1. 3. 38 effusum uentis praebueratque sinum (for such displacement of -que see Platnauer, Latin elegiac verse, p. 91). The movement of thought is from generic fictilia to specific pocula. For this compare 2. 1. 59–60

      rure puer uerno primum de flore coronam
      fecit et antiquis imposuit Laribus.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s). Published online by Cambridge University Press 1974

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page 54 note 1 I am grateful to those members of the Society who heard the first draft of this paper for their comments and suggestions, and in particular to Dr James Diggle.