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Propertius 4.7.26 Again

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Richard Whitaker
Richard Whitaker
Affiliation:
University of Natal, Durban
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In CQ N.S. 28 (1978), 242, Frances Mueeke, quoting Beroaldus, rightly understood this line to refer to a funerary practice. In default of ancient parallels the author offered us a modern one from a novel I vicerè by Federico De Roberto, first published in 1894. 1894. But even before De Roberto's novel was published, Vincenzo Padula, in his curious work Pauca Quae in Sexto Aurelio Propertio Vincentius Padula ab Acrio Animadvertabat (Naples, 1871), had explained Prop. 4.7.26 by reference to popular custom:

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Shorter Notes
Information
The Classical Quarterly , Volume 29 , Issue 2 , December 1979 , pp. 485 - 486
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1979

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References

1 Now reprinted in Tomaszuk, P. V., A Romantic Interpretation of Propertius Vincenzo Padula (Aquila, 1971).Google Scholar

2 Ibid., p. 48.