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Salapantivm Disertvm

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

H. W. Garrod
H. W. Garrod*
Affiliation:
Merton College, Oxford.
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Our best MSS. agree upon salapantium. But they also agree upon desertum for disertum. Seneca, who quotes the last two words of the line, has salaput(t)ium disertum ; and since he is right about disertum it is supposed that he is right about salaputium ; and salaputium stands in all our texts of Catullus. What it means nobody knows. It is mostly relegated to that numerous class of Latin words of which we conjecture that they are obscene and are content that they should remain obscure.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Classical Quarterly , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , January 1914 , pp. 48 - 49
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1914

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