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Wholly Spondaic Lines in Homer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

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In his notes T. E. Page often points out Virgil's ‘accommodation of sound to sense’. Postgate declares ‘Spondees are employed to express Seriousness or Melancholy’. But spondees of course are employed otherwise as well; and in general we are often warned against finding in the text what the poet did not intend. The cautioners too should beware, of missing a relevant point.

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Copyright © The Classical Association 1964

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page 2 note 1 Postgate, J. P., Prosodia Latina (Oxford, 1923), 77.Google Scholar

page 2 note 2 The Iliad, ed. Leaf, Walter, ii (London, 1888), 395.Google Scholar

page 2 note 3 Wilkinson, L. P., Golden Latin Artistry (Cambridge, 1963), 61.Google Scholar

page 3 note 1 In Od. i–vi there are examples at: i. 39; ii. 233, 423; iii. 101; iv. 247, 279, 331, 607, 684; v. 11, 32; vi. 3, 114, 182, 202, 259, 318. Full statistics for the Iliad and Odyssey are in La Roche, J., ‘Zahlenverhältnisse im homerischen Vers', Wiener Studien, xx (1898), 169.Google Scholar (He does not admit iv. 607 or vi. 318.)

page 4 note 1 ἀνστὰς ἐξ εὐνῆς, ἐπεὶ οὐ πολὺ ναῑεν ᾀπ' αὐτοῦ and θῆκ' αὐτοῦ προπάροιθε.…

page 4 note 2 Cf. La Roche, , op. cit. 68–69.Google Scholar

page 4 note 3 But cf. Homeric Hymn iv. 130.Google Scholar

page 4 note 4 The Odyssey of Homer, ed. Stanford, W. B., ii (London, 1948), 358.Google Scholar

page 4 note 5 The Iliad, ed. Leaf, Walter, i (London, 1886).Google Scholar

page 4 note 6 London, 1900.

page 5 note 1 The Odyssey of Homer, ed. Stanford, W. B., i (London, 1947), 84Google Scholar. On this and θρηικῶν ‖ θρῃκῶν, ἣρωι | ἣρῳ etc., see Chantraine, P., Grammaire homérique (phonétique et morphologie) (Paris, 1942 or 1948), 107Google Scholar. At the end of the line Il. v. 462 θρῃκῶν is inescapable.

page 5 note 2 iii. 104.

page 5 note 3 The Homeric Hymns (London, 1904), 74.Google Scholar

page 5 note 4 See Wilkinson, L. P., op. cit. 54Google Scholar, including his reference in a footnote to ProfessorFraenkel, 's comment on Aesch. Ag. 268.Google Scholar

page 5 note 5 Commentary on Homer's Odyssey (Basle p. 746)Google Scholar,ὃς δὴ στίχος καἱ ἐπαινεῖται ὡς ὁλοσπόνδειος καὶ τῷ στασίμῳ τοῦ μέτρου ἐξομοιούμενος τῇ στάσει τῶν συναντώντων ἀλλήλοις κατὰ φιλίαν. Merry misunderstood this. See his note on the line in Homer, , Odyssey, Books XIII–XXIV, ed. Merry, W. W. (Oxford, 1878).Google Scholar

page 6 note 1 Op. cit. 52.