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nos For ‘we’ meaning ‘I’ see line 17n. nostri. Trappes-Lomax (2007: 230) would write me with the first Aldine edition, as everywhere else in this poem Catullus would be using the singular (but see line 17) and because the alliteration in me mente would be preferable (but would it not sound like a stutter?). The Augustan poets often use the polite plural when turning down a request in a formal act of recusatio, as at Prop. 1.7.5, Hor. Od. 1.6.5 and Ov. Am. 2.18.3. mente maligna When applied to a person, malignus can mean ‘grudging, niggardly’ (OLD s.v. 1 and TLL IA, and note the antonyms malignus largus at Pl. Bac. 401), but from this period onwards also ‘ill-disposed, unkind’ (OLD 3 and TLL IIA, and compare Cat. 67.3-5 ianua, quam Balbo dicunt seruisse benigne ... quamque ferunt rursus gnato seruisse maligne); here a hint of the latter meaning may already be present. In Latin, mente is often used with an adjective in its proper sense to describe a state of mind, as here (see further TLL 8.728.45-730.40); in the vulgar language this construction comes to be used more widely and gives rise to the adverbs of the Romance languages (see Väänänen 1963: 98f.). 38 id facere Not colloquial, pace Thomson, but just unpoetic: well attested in comedy (Pl. Asin. 67, 213 and 853, Mil. 1277, Poen. 24, etc., Ter Andr. 613, Eun. 1070 and Hec. 266) and prose (Cic. Ver. 2.5.151, Inv. 1.70, Rep. 1.10 and Fam. 2.1.1, Caes. B.G. 4.16.6, Var. L.L. 6.67 and R.R. 9.96, Liv. 22.56.4, Vell. 2.71.3, Plin. N.H. 24.181 and Epist. 2.5.10, Quint. Inst. 4.2.87, etc.; not in Sallust or Tacitus), but in classical poetry only found here and at [Sen.] Oct. 454. Other similar phrases are equally rare in non-comic poetry: note Cat. 85.1 id faciam, Lucr. 2.141 id faciant and 2.292 id facit, and Ov. Tr. 3.14.7 ita fac. animo non satis ingenuo A characteristic or action is ingenuus if it befits a free-born Roman, as do bashfulness (61.79 ingenuus pudor), keeping one’s part of a deal (110.5) and being generous to a friend in distress (here). The use of ingenuus to mean ‘generous’ is post-classical and rare (TLL 7.1.1548.6-10). 39 non utriusque utriusque indicates unambiguously that Manlius has made two requests, and that munera et Musarum et Veneris in line 10 must be taken to refer to two different items. In fact, this is also suggested by the rest of the poem (cfr. on line 10, and see also the Introduction, p. 52). This removes the raison d’être of the conjectures of Hermes (1888: 14) and Nisbet (1978: 105), who assume that utriusque must be corrrupt, since there can have been made only one request. There may have been a similar rationale to the conjecture of Nicolaus Heinsius (ap. Santenius). In any case, all three can be excluded on quite unconnected grounds. Heinsius’ prius usque and Hermes’ penite usque are hard to understand, in particular usque, the use of which would be unparalleled here (Hermes compares Prop. 2.8.15f. usque / in nostrum iacies uerba superba caput?, but there usque simply means ‘always’). Nisbet considers rewriting much of the line to read quod tibi non (or nulla) hucusque petenti exempla paraui; his substitute for utriusque is hucusque, but that is not attested in this temporal sense until the 4 th century A.D.: see TLL 6.3.3072.46-58. utriusque is surely correct. However, there has been controversy about the meaning of non utriusque: does it indicate that Catullus rejects both Manlius’ requests, or only one of them? Should it be interpreted as neutrius ‘of neither’ or as 148
unius tantum ‘only of one’? Over a century ago German scholars tried to solve the question by studying Catullus’ treatment of the negation in admirable detail (see Rassfeld 1898 and Birt 1904: 437-439), but their research has not led to widely accepted conclusions. The problem is that the negation is flexible and can be used in a variety of ways, and its exact meaning has to be inferred from the context wherever it occurs. Birt (1904: 436) pointed out that it is obvious that when the two words non utriusque are closely connected, they have to mean alter tantum; but it is the question whether they are closely connected here. Vahlen (1902: 1031 = 1923: 2.659) and Birt maintained that they were not and the negation qualified the whole clause utriusque … est, but they could not prove their case with the help of compelling linguistic arguments. In fact, non is found with a form or derivative of uterque in two senses in the literature of the classical period: 1) non uterque etc. = ‘not both of the two, but only one, or neither’ • Nepos Att. 13.3 namque in ea [i.e. familia] erant pueri litteratissimi, anagnostae optimi et plurimi librarii, ut ne pedisequus quidem quisquam esset, qui non utrumque horum pulchre facere posset ... • Ovid A.A. 2.<strong>68</strong>3 odi concubitus, qui non utrumque resoluunt • Quintilian Inst. 10.1.48 age uero, non utriusque operis ingressu in paucissimis uersibus legem prohoemiorum non dico seruauit sed constituit? (Homer in the proems of Iliad and the Odyssey.) 2) non uterque etc. = ‘not both of the two, that is, only one’ • Statius Theb. 12.720-2 iamque alternas in proelia gentes / dissimilis Bellona ciet; non clamor utrimque, / non utrimque tubae: stat debilis altera pubes ... • Suetonius Gramm. 12.1 Cornelius Epicadus, L. Cornelii Sullae dictatoris libertus ... filio quoque eius Fausto gratissimus fuit, quare numquam non utriusque se libertum edidit. • Hyginus Astr. 4.1.2 etsi non nemo dubitat quare non utrique circuli, hoc est aestiuus et hiemalis, uno nomine appellentur ... • Clemens Dig. 40.9.24 duobus manumissis, si unius libertate fraudentur, non utriusque, sed alterutrius impediri libertatem • Paulus Dig. 34.9.5.14 Qui principale testamentum arguit, et a secundis tabulis repellendus est: item a codicillis ad testamentum factis licet non confirmatis; non idem sequendum est, si secundas tabulas uel codicillos coarguit, quia non utrumque hoc casu improbasse uidetur. • Ulpian Dig. 29.4.20 pr. si eadem res diuersis personis ab instituto et substituto fuerit relicta, non uterque, sed qui ab instituto accepit solus uindicabit. • Ulpian Dig. 46.7.13 sed ubi commissa est ex priore causa, ex altera ... amplius non committitur; altera causa enim, non utraque inhaeret stipulationi. 149
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CATULLUS 68 Edited with an Introduc
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Bei irgendeinem Spätling muß doch
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the first place. As a result of all
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When I started working on this volu
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CONTENTS PREFACE ..................
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At first sight, this debate could a
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so that one would not have to look
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least, non utriusque in line 39 cou
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artistic unity of the poem ...” 2
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can only claim that an expression s
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later than the 6 th century A.D., a
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(c) Carmen 68 is unitary and concer
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Morgan is a separatist, while Lachm
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This solution was proposed by Frank
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(S 3) Lines 20 and 22-24 are repeat
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(S 5) In lines 1-40 Catullus says h
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in that of 1973 or in his 1988 revi
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address in poem 68 for a number of
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(1) R 2 (Coluccio Salutati) has add
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whether the evidence at our disposa
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later Torquatus tried unsuccessfull
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68a that may support such an identi
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straightforward Yes or No. In short
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from a private letter. This could b
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desertum in line 6). The second pai
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I propose a twofold solution. There
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***** Does Catullus reject both Man
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some sort of practical contribution
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methods and ideals of the doctus po
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If a wealthy Roman male 122 was des
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friends appear to have found romant
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CATULLUS 68B ‘Goddesses, I cannot
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There is space for disagreement abo
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to be rather flexible; evidently Ca
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loc.) - but here too it is not clea
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and Lesbia. Twenty-five years have
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One is the theme of human and divin
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his exemplar from those that he mad
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have been using not the archetype,
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The apparatus criticus I should cla
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It has been hard to decide whether
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CATULLI CARMEN LXVIIIA Quod mihi fo
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nam mihi quam dederit duplex Amathu
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ne Paris abducta gauisus libera moe
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huc addant diui quam plurima, quae
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poem through several stages of tran
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mihi mitto ‘to send’, ‘to hav
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ieiuna … desideret ara The altar
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85f. The Parcae knew that Laodamia
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y this time. Argiuus, meaning not o
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Meillet s.v. cinis), but the Italia
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that might simply be because it is
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cognatos … cineres Enallage: ‘r
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should be attached to the orthograp
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were using the aspirated forms (Ora
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109 quale Here and at 111 quod the
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Stymphalia monstra ‘The Stymphali
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altior illo, / qui … , which woul
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First, it is hard to see how the ne
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et flumina uim minuerunt and 6.645
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126 improbius ‘More shamelessly
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1549 - see Nomenclator 96), whose a
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garments, and the colours croceus a
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prose it is replaced by tametsi. It
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eassuring environment, with the win
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(Theb. 7x, Ach. 1x, Silu. 1x), Juve
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omniuoli This hapax legomenon is su
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this line at himself. But why shoul
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(Fordyce), nor is there any need to
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Consequently I do not think that on
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(1958: 103) and Trappes-Lomax (2007
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Trappes-Lomax (2007: 244) notes tha
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to diuus (7x against 2x), in the lo
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All these supplements presuppose th
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directed to God the Creator. He cou
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transdidi used by Fronto (Epist. p.
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for a shipwrecked man but must be a
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the previous and the following dist
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would have never wanted to say that
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conjecture and proposed another rec
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5) Agius 75-78 uos nostis, quanta i
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APPENDIX II: CATULLUS’ SOURCES FO
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Catullus calls Protesilaus’ house
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BIBLIOGRAPHY A note on references C
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PLM Aemilius Baehrens ed. (1879-188
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G Catulle, Manuscrit de St-Germain-
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Hartman, J.J. (1916), ‘De Catulli
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Heine, Rolf (1975), ‘Zu Catull c.
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Newman, John Kevin (1990), Roman Ca
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Berry, D.H. (1996), Cicero: Pro P.
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Graziosi Acquaro, Maria Teresa (197
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Pomey, Patrice (1997), ‘Les dange
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--- (1929), ‘Sepulcri Portuensis
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