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Horace, Epode 6.16

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

S. J. Harrison
S. J. Harrison
Affiliation:
St John's College, Oxford
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Extract

Here Horace gives warning to an adversary of his powers of literary attack, comparing himself with the great iambists Archilochus (‘Lycambae spretus infido gener’) and Hipponax (‘acer hostis Bupalo’). The general sense of the last two lines seems clear: ‘If someone attacks me (gifted as I am with the weapons of the iambist), shall I weep like a mere boy?’, i.e. ‘Am I not to take revenge?’

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Shorter Notes
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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 37 , Issue 2 , December 1987 , pp. 523 - 524
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1987

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References

1 Some support for ‘inutilis flebo puer’ might also be derived from the identical word-shape of a similar iambic dimeter at Epodes 5.12, ‘insignibus raptis puer’ (a point which I owe to the anonymous referee for CQ).

My thanks for encouragement to Professor R. G. M. Nisbet.