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John Sparrow, Half-Lines And Repetitions In Vergil. Oxford: Tne Clarendon Press, 1931. Pp. 156. 10s. 6d.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 September 2012

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Reviews and Notices of Recent Publications
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Copyright ©R. S. Conway 1932. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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1 Mr. Sparrow quotes Mr. C. M. Bowra's striking computation that 9,253 lines out of the total 27,853 of the Iliad and Odyssey are repeated or contain repeated phrases.

2 See my lecture on Vergil's Creative Art (Brit. Acad. Proc. xvii, 1931), delivered October 14th, 1930.