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Notes on the Thebaid of Stativs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

E. H. Alton
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The Thebaid is not easy reading, and copyists (and at times, I fear, editors) have not helped to make it easier. There are many pitfalls in the language of Statius, and words cannot be taken always at their face value. I have erred myself and suffered. It may be of interest to give a few instances.

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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 17 , Issue 3-4 , July 1923 , pp. 175 - 186
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1923

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page 175 note 1 Dr. Purser points out a somewhat similar use of ferrum in Lucan VII. 228: ‘atque omnis Latio quae seruit purpura ferro.’