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Republican dramatists (see Soubiran 1966: 381-385) and it is also found in an anonymous fragment, frg. 70 FPL 3 Musae Aonides. All this undermines Haupt’s and Goold’s case against the possibility of hiatus in Catullus. In some cases hiatus could be the result of corruption, to be sure – but nothing in the present passage suggests this. I preserve the primary MSS’ primo ¦ omnia. Most conjectures affecting this line were proposed in order to remove the hiatus. The most straightforward solution appears to be primo , which was proposed by Haupt (1837: 86). Short words are easily lost, and res aliqua nascitur alicui is an established idiom, witness Pl. Curc. 706 dicendi, non rem perdendi gratia haec nata est mihi, Ter. Hecyr. 797 scit sibi nobilitatem ex eo et rem natam et gloriam esse, Cic. Fin. 4.74 ex eisdem uerborum praestrigiis et regna nata uobis sunt et imperia et diuitiae and Fam. 16.22.2 scribes ad me, ut mihi nascatur epistulae argumentum and Hor. A.P. 122 iura neget sibi nata. Haupt’s conjecture may be attractive not so much because the hiatus is undesirable in itself, but because the line may run more smoothly with an indirect object. The other reconstructions are less attractive. Pighi conjectured a quo and printed et qui principio nobis terram dedit (aufert nunc), a quo sunt primo omnia nata bona but this is highly implausible: we have already seen that terram dedit does not make sense (see ad loc.), and aufert nunc is not acceptable as a parenthetical expression: one would need something like sed nunc aufert, and clearer grammatical signposts to guide the reader or the listener. Also, it is not clear what this would mean. Oksala (1965: 88) suggested the transposition primo sunt instead of the MSS’ sunt primo, comparing the inversion of dulce mihi in line 160, but a quo primo sunt would be unacceptable. Calphurnius’ nobis for primo would be strangely repetitive after nobis in the previous line. Peiper’s semina nata boni would change two words, one of them drastically, and jettison the set phrase omnia bona in favour of the tautological image of the birth of the seeds of good; Mynors puts this conjecture into his apparatus, but Goold (1958: 108) dismisses it as “ridiculous”. Kinsey’s dulcia is nearly as drastic, and no more convincing: dulcia … bona would be an odd expression because one would expect these adjectives to stand in conjunction and not to qualify each other, and once more we would lose the set phrase omnia bona. Finally, Nisbet (1978: 114, n. 41) and Trappes-Lomax (2001: 307, n. 9 and 2007: 244f.) try to reconstruct the text with the help of its echo in Agius’ Epicedium Hathumodae at lines 57f. quae nostrae dulcedo simul uel gloria uitae, / in qua sunt una perdita tanta bona? Hence Nisbet proposes plurima or else tot mihi nata bona, while Trappes-Lomax first suggested condita tanta bona, but six years later he retracted this and proposed tanta parata bona. They assume that Catullus’ MSS are so corrupt that they reflect less closely what the poet wrote than the echoes of his words in Agius. However, Agius does not tend to lift more than one word at a time from his sources (see Appendix I, esp. p. 266). In this line he imitates not only the present verse but also Cat. 77.4 ei misero eripuisti mi omnia nostra bona? Both lines contain the phrase omnia … bona, ‘all the good things’, but Agius had no use for such a phrase, since he attached great importance to due restraint in mourning, and he 260
would have never wanted to say that Hathumod took all the good things to the grave with her. It cannot be regarded as significant that he exchanges omnia for another adjective; and in the present passage omnia is supported by its echo at 77.4. 159f. The poem suitably ends with a reference to Lesbia, who is the last person to be included in the valedictory sit felix in line 155. Catullus transforms this greeting into a ringing declaration of loyalty: Lesbia is dearer to him than anybody else, himself included, indeed, she is the cause of his happiness. The conventional phrases he uses to express this may be conventional should not be seen as hackneyed: they are some of the strongest terms available to a speaker of Latin to express affection. 159 longe ante omnes Baehrens and Fordyce take these words to imply sit felix, but that would be puzzling as well as impolite after the manifold good wishes extended to Allius. These words must surely go with carior. The construction is not entirely smooth, but Ellis interprets it convincingly as “a condensed expression for et quae longe omnium carissima, atque adeo me ipso carior est” on the basis of Lygdamus = [Tib.] 3.4.92f. et longe ante alias omnes mitissima mater / isque pater quo non alter amabilior. The phrase longe ante omnes is also found at Pliny N.H. 35.128 and appears to have been one of a set group along with longe ante alios (Livy 1.15.8 and 27.34.1), longe ante ceteros (Apul. Flor. 16.38, p. 73 Oudendorp) and longe ante cunctas terras (Pliny N.H. 14.87). mihi … me carior ipso Another set phrase: compare Cic. Att. 3.22.3 premor luctu desiderio omnium meorum, qui mihi me cariores semper fuerunt and 10.11.1 omnis suos … caros habet, me quidem se ipso cariorem, Ov. Met. 8.405 o me mihi carior, Trist. 5.14.2 o mihi me coniunx carior and Pont. 2.8.27 per patriae nomen, quae te tibi carior ipso est. Catullus also uses carior oculis (82.2-4 and 104.2) and iucundior uita (64.215). For other expressions of this type see TLL 3.504.58-73. 160 lux mea An affectionate final reference to Lesbia; for the expression see line 132n. qua uiua uiuere dulce mihi est It does not make this expression any weaker that ‘my life is pleasant because of so-and-so’ is a topos: compare Callim. frg. 591 Pfeiffer τεψνα⇔ην ⎟τ ⁄κε⇑νον ποπνε⎛!αντα πυψο⇔μην, Pl. Merc. 471-473 qur ego ueiuo? qur non morior? quid mihist in uita boni? / certumst, ibo ad medicum atque ibi me toxico morti dabo, / quando id mi adimitur qua caussa uitam cupio uiuere, Hor. Epod. 1.5f. nos, quibus te uita si superstite / iucunda, si contra, grauis, Prop. 2.8.42 uiuam, si uiuet; si cadet illa, cadam and note its use in formulas of farewell at Fronto Epist. p. 59.24f. Naber = 54.14f. van den Hout 2 amo uitam propter te, amo litteras tecum and ibid. p. 88.11f. Naber = 81.7 van den Hout 2 uale, domine dulcissime, desiderantissime, causa optima uitae meae. Note also Cat. 65.10 uita frater amabilior. Ellis calls uiuere dulce mihi est Homeric on the basis of Od. 24.435f. ο⎡κ ν ⁄μο⇔ γε μετ φρε!⇐ν ″δ⎜ γϒνοιτο / ζϖϒμεν, but that passage is not likely to be relevant here as dulcis is used frequently in Latin for anything that might be experienced as pleasant (TLL 5.1.2190.56-2192.76), including life itself: compare 261
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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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What makes the image effective and
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eference to Allius’ funeral is po
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Alternatively, it could be assumed
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the island of the cattle of the Sun
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fletu This verbal noun is well-esta
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Culex 123f. primum prona surgebant
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valley as if it were a slope than t
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It remains to consider the rest of
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prefers to follow O and writes uiat
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pronoun (‘this man’), as this w
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clausum Fordyce is probably right t
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characterize the gift and not the g
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far from the transmitted text, and
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the Elder, N.H. 17.134 cum sit mutu
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eloved as a goddess: thus Pl. Bacch
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significantly different from the pr
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511.65. constituo is not used elsew
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exist in Latin, to -au-, which did;
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77f. Catullus interrupts his narrat
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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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Page 271 and 272: BIBLIOGRAPHY A note on references C
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Page 277 and 278: Hartman, J.J. (1916), ‘De Catulli
Page 279 and 280: Heine, Rolf (1975), ‘Zu Catull c.
Page 281 and 282: Newman, John Kevin (1990), Roman Ca
Page 283 and 284: Berry, D.H. (1996), Cicero: Pro P.
Page 285 and 286: Graziosi Acquaro, Maria Teresa (197
Page 287 and 288: Pomey, Patrice (1997), ‘Les dange
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