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Tityos and the Lover
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 November 2018
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- Nec Tityon uolucres ineunt Acherunte iacentem
- nec quod sub magno scrutentur pectore quicquam
- perpetuam aetatem possunt reperire profecto.
- quamlibet immani proiectu corporis exstet,
- qui non sola nouem dispessis iugera membris
- obtineat, sed qui terrai totius orbem,
- non tamen aeternum poterit perferre dolorem
- nec praebere cibum proprio de corpore semper.
- sed Tityos nobis hic est, in amore iacentem
- quem uolucres lacerant atque exest anxius angor
- aut alia quauis scindunt cuppedine curae.
- Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, III, 984–94
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page 47 note 1 I am indebted to the members of Professor H. Dörrie's seminar at Münster for helpful criticisms, and in particular to Dr M. Baltes for his salutary scepticism over the interpretation of lacerant.
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