Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-ndw9j Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-20T03:22:23.330Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Some Passages from Virgil and Horace

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2013

A. Ker
A. Ker
Affiliation:
Trinity College, Cambridge
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

A. 1, 573–4. urbem quam statuo vestra est; subducite navis;

Tros Tyriusque mihi nullo discrimine agetur.

Servius says agetur means regetur, a purely ad hoc translation, as Conington observed, and one which is not supported by the remarks of A. J. Bell on the passage (A.J.P. (1919), pp. 198—200). But Conington's own translation is quite as ad hoc. He says that agere is a ‘variety’ for ducere ‘regard’. But it does not follow diat because άγω can mean ‘regard’, ago can do so too. Conington's parallel, 10, 108, Tros Rutulusne fuat, nullo discrimine habebo, is not helpful, as habeo is frequently so used. But there is no example, as far as I know, of ago in this sense.

Type
Research Article
Information
Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society (Second Series) , Volume 10 , 1964 , pp. 39 - 47
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s). Published online by Cambridge University Press 1964

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

page 40 note 1 Conington's parallel from Pseudo-Cic. (de Harusp. Resp.) is colloquial in style.

page 44 note 1 Housman, however, evidently altered his view later. Since writing the above, my attention as been drawn to the MS. lecture notes in Cambridge University Library, from which it is clear that by 1930 he had come to accept Bentley's suggestion, as I have done above, and with it the retention of at vulgus.

page 45 note 1 E.g. in 1, 18, 22; 2, 10, 14 and 16; 4, 4, 7 and 10; Epod. 11.