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manufesti moechi) and Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8.7.2 Seruius Ocella nemini persuasisset se moechum esse nisi triduo bis deprehensus esset. The word and its derivatives are found from the archaic period onwards, almost always in less elevated genres such as comedy, satire and private letters (12x Pl., 4x Ter., 1x each Lucil., Laber., Var. Menipp., Cael. epist., Aug. epist.; 10x Cat., Hor. 6x Sat. and 1x Od., Phaedr. 4x, Juv. 14x and Mart. 30x). Higher genres prefer adulter, which is less shocking (cfr. Verg. Aen. 10.92 me duce Dardanius Spartam expugnauit adulter – the present passage re-phrased in more palatable terms?). Vulgar terms of abuse are not noted for their precision, and moechus and its kin could also be used in general for men with unwholesome sexual habits: thus Pl. Truc. 610 moechum malacum, cincinnatum, Lucil. 1058 Marx moechocinaedi and Cat. 37.16 omnes pusilli et semitarii moechi; see further TLL 8.1324.82-1325.17. In Greek the feminine of μοιξ〉! is normally μοιξ !; only Aristophanes of Byzantium (ap. Eust. in Od. 14.350 = p. 1761.24 ed. Rom.) claims that there exists a form μοιξ→. In Latin moechas is found only once (Var. Men. 205 Astbury), but moechus has given rise to the native formation moecha (see Kroll on Cat. 42.3). This can be used either specifically to mean ‘an adulteress’, as here, or as a general term of abuse, ‘a slut’ (thus moecha turpis, putida moecha etc. in Cat. 42). Even in the former sense moecha will have been highly offensive, the right word to brand the irresponsible adulteress Helen, whose infidelity caused the death of so many good men. Being one of Lesbia’s lovers, Catullus was playing with fire. 104 pacato Not ‘pacified’, as often, but ‘at peace’ (TLL 10.1.22.71f.). in thalamo In Greek ψ λαμο! is used of a variety of inner rooms and spaces, especially of the women’s chambers, the most intimate part of a house (LSJ s.v., I; from the Iliad onwards). In Latin the word first occurs in the Iliad of one Naevius, of uncertain date but possibly Sullan (cfr. FPL 3 p. 119; frg. 2 FPL 3 penetrat penitus thalamoque potitur), and in Catullus (also at 61.185 and at 66.17). In the Augustan period it is already frequent (1x in Carmen de Bello Actiaco, 5x in Prop., 23x in Virg., 1x in Hor., 77x in Ov., etc.); it does not occur in prose before Petronius (2x). 105 quo … casu ‘Through which event’ (for this sense of casus compare Cic. Fam. 10.23.4, of someone trying to commit suicide: in quo casu tamen interpellatus adhuc uiuit et dicitur uicturus) and not ‘through what fortune’, ‘by which chance event’ (which is the more common meaning of the word: see line 1n. casu). There was nothing casual about Protesilaus’ death. pulcerrima Did Catullus write pulcer or pulcher? Catullus’ archetype may only have contained unaspirated forms: for most of the text these are found in all principal MSS (23.5, 23.8, 57.1, 57.10, 61.84, 64.28), while from poem 79 onwards X appears to have chosen to write aspirated forms (79.1 and 3, 86.5). But the MSS are of dubious value when it comes to reconstructing spelling: see the Introduction, pp. 80f. Cicero describes how he used to omit the aspiration in imitation of earlier Romans and said pulcer, Cetegus, triumpus and Kartago, only to change track later when he noticed that this seemed too unnatural, as people 212
were using the aspirated forms (Orat. 160). Inscriptions from this period use both pulcher and pulcer (see Sandys 1885: 180 on Cic. Orat. 160 pulcros). It is safer to follow the MSS here. 106 uita dulcius atque anima A set expression, witness Cic. Fam. 14.7.1 Tulliolam, quae nobis nostra uita dulcior est, Lydia 57 letum uita mihi dulcius esset (cfr. 52) and Lucan 5.739f. non nunc uita mihi dulcior … cum taedet uita, laeto sed tempore, coniunx. In this poem note mihi quae me carior ipso est in line 159: Laodamia is no less passionate in her love than Catullus. 107 coniugium A strongly emphatic word. It stands isolated in enjambment at the start of this distich; its emphatic position is appropriate to its significance and need not be a sign of unsophisticated technique (“ein Zeichen von unentwickelter Technik”), as Kroll argues. This metonymical use to mean not ‘wedding’ but ‘spouse’ is found as early as Accius trag. 500 coniugium Pisis petere and is well attested in later poetry: thus Prop. 3.13.19f. certamen habent leti, quae uiua sequatur / coniugium (of Oriental widows), Verg. Aen. 3.296 coniugio Aeacidae Pyrrhi sceptrisque potitum and CE 1192.1f. = CIL 12.861.1f. debita coniugio Apelles pia carmina scribit, / quam rapuit mors inimica uiro (2 nd c. A.D., from Arles); see further TLL 4.325.16-46. 107f. tanto te absorbens uertice amoris / aestus in abruptum detulerat barathrum The clause illustrates not ereptum est … coniugium but uita dulcius atque anima, which was the most striking part of the preceding clause, though syntactically not the most important one. Note the pluperfect, which describes Laodamia falling in love before losing her husband (thus Kroll). The metaphorical use of aestus absorbens for passion and similar states of mind seems to have been commonplace: thus Pl. Bac. 470f. meretricem indigne deperit. – non tu taces? / – atque acerrume aestuosam: apsorbet ubi quemque attigit, Cic. Leg. 2.9 ne aestus nos consuetudinis absorbeat and Brut. 282 hunc quoque absorbuit aestus quidam insolitae adulescentibus gloriae. 107 tanto … uertice amoris For the image of the whirlpool compare Cic. Tusc. 2.21 nunc, nunc dolorum anxiferi torquent uertices (the metaphor is absent from the passage he is translating, Soph. Trach. 1088f.), Sen. Ep. 82.3 non satius est uel sic iacere quam in istis officiorum uerticibus uolutari? and Sil. 4.230 qua medio pugnae uorat agmina uertex. It seems to have been a matter of controversy in antiquity whether one had to write uertex or uortex. Quintilian Inst. 1.7.25 notes the view that the original spelling had been uortex (and uorsus, a similar case), which was first changed into uertex by Scipio Africanus; however, the grammarian Caper states that uortex fluminis est, uertex capitis (GL 7.99.11 Keil, cfr. 7.97.15), while Charisius agrees with Pliny the Elder that uertex a uertendo dicitur, uortex a uorando (GL 1.88.16). In the MSS the two forms are used more or less indiscriminately; so it is safer to conserve the principal MSS’ uertice. absorbens ‘Devouring’ (TLL 1.184.<strong>68</strong>-185.31). 213
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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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daughter Tullia (Erskine 1997). Cic
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Να⌠ακο⎜ω ≥δη, δεσ
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spumantibus exspuit undis This expr
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A somewhat peculiar interpretation
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Prop. 1.8.33 and Tib. 1.1.43; terra
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In the present passage caelibe evid
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contemporaries; and it made Catullu
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10 ‘… and that (it is) from her
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• Theognis 249f. ο⎡ξ 〈ππ
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• Solon frg. 26 West ƒργα δ
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position to give them; he implies t
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Ellis (ad loc.), Schöll (1880: 473
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15-26 ‘I had my share of amorous
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man (and a Roman citizen), that is,
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actions (compare the plural of demo
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would not have been taken over into
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comedy (Pl. Curc. 697, Men. 1133, A
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their own (see on sepulta in the pr
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not] employ the offensively hyperbo
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closer to turpe. This would be an e
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quid agis? ...’). In general, scr
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frigida ... membra Since erotic fer
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29. What is ‘sad rather than sham
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introduces a new point that is in s
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1955 on Verg. Aen. 4.2, and cfr. Ca
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you both, if I had any to hand.’
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unius tantum ‘only of one’? Ove
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without any hint that the investmen
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68B: IN PRAISE OF ALLIUS 41-50 ‘G
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are solved by Scaliger’s brillian
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me’ is a much more suitable expre
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monument (Fordyce), which is the pl
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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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