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Juvenal 1.149 and 10.106–7

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

D. A. Kidd
D. A. Kidd
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University of Canterbury, New Zealand
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The traditional interpretation of line 149 understands in praecipiti as a metaphor expressing the height that vice has reached in Juvenal's day. Vice is now ‘at its zenith’ (Mayor), ‘at its highest point’ (Hardy), ‘auf demGipfel’ (Friedlaender, Knoche), ‘at its acme’ (Ramsay), ‘a son comble’ (Labriolle and Villeneuve), ‘at a climax’ (Sedgwick), ‘at a dizzy height’ (Highet). Lewis and Short have a special sub-heading, II. B. 3. b. (β), for this example of praeceps (together with Pliny's accedere adpraeceps in Epp. 9. 26. 2) and translate ‘at its point of culmination’.

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Research Article
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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , May 1964 , pp. 103 - 108
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1964

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