Archibald Allen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3874829 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Archibald Allen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Archibald |
| FAMILY NAME | Allen |
| SIGNATURE | ALLEN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Convivial Bed-Wetters: Lucr. 4.1026–9
This note offers a new conjecture on the manuscripts’ puri at Lucr. 4.1026 which would identify more clearly the dreaming bed-wetters as well-wined dinner guests
Ὦ Φαληρεύς: Plato, Symp . 172a
Scholarly efforts to detect playfulness in the address to Apollodorus at Pl. Symp . 172a are reviewed and found unsatisfactory. In keeping with the dialogue’s erotic theme and comic spirit, a small supplemental emendation of the address’s Φαληρεύς is proposed to effect a phallic mock-demotic à la Aristophanes, Φαλ ηρεύς
Presbyopic Corruption: Plato, Symposivm 219a
Alcibiades relates Socrates' warning on his proposal for a reciprocal exchange of beauty; he should take a better look (ἄμεινον σκόπει) in case he is mistaken about Socrates' beauty and true worth: ἥ τοι τῆς διανοίας ὄψις ἄρχεται ὀξὺ βλέπειν ὅταν ἡ τῶν ὀμμάτων τῆς ἀκμῆς λήγειν ἐπιχειρῆι· σὺ δὲ τούτων ἔτι πόρρω, ‘the sight of the mind, you know, begins to see sharply when the sight of the eyes attempts (?) to fade from its prime—but you (are) stil…
Virgil's Acquisitive Bees
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Horace, Odes 2.14.14
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Horace’s satelles orci ( odes 2.18.34)
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Words amiss at Plato, Phaedo 118a1–4
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Lucretius, D.R.N. 5.948
In his account of primitive people in D.R.N. 5 Lucretius says that they led a wandering, nomadic sort of existence (932, ‘vulgivago vitam tractabant more ferarum’); ignorant of agriculture and husbandry, they were content to eat nuts and berries and the like (933ff.), while streams and springs called them to quench their thirst (945ff.): denique nota vagis silvestria templa tenebant nympharum... The rest of the sentence is a lush description of t…
Propertius and ‘Coan Philitas’
This is our well received text of Propertius' celebrated address to the shades of Callimachus and Philitas at 3.1.1–2: Callimachi Manes et Coi sacra Philitae, in vestrum, quaeso, me sinite ire nemus. Well received it may be, but scholarly worries and disagreements about the precise meaning of sacra , and indeed about the real purpose of the address, perhaps have diverted editors' eyes from a possible corruption. I would like to suggest that the p…
The Fragments of Mimnermus: Text and Commentary
Climactic Delay in Lucretius
Noting that standard interpretation of sollicitat ... amoris has woman rousing or inciting her lover to run through or complete of Jacobson declares that such a reading almost intolerable in context. Lucretius has just said that a woman not always feign sexual excitement and passion (nec muller semper ficto suspirat amore, 1192), so that when he now speaks of one who does it from heart (facit ex animo) as seeking common joys he must mean that she…
Catullus Lxiv 287-88
Propertius' ‘Paternal Ashes’
At 3.9.37–8, Propertius says that he will not bewail (sc. in epic verse) the destruction of Thebes by the Epigonoi or the earlier assault on the city by the Seven: non flebo in cineres arcem sedisse paternos Cadmi, nee septem proelia clade pari. That nec...pari in 38 refers to the Seven, with Lipsius' septem for the manuscripts' semper , J. D. Morgan demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt in his discussion of the couplet in CQ 36 (1986), 186–8. But…
"Propertius, "Founts Divine
Ovid's Art of Imitation. Propertius in the Amores
Mindful Philitas
Cynthia's Bedside Manner
What kind of danger does Propertius face? The two traditional answers, a voyage at sea or sickness, were questioned and rejected recently in this journal by Alva W. Bennett.2 He argued that periclo (3) and timore (4) both refer to Propertius' dreadful suspicion that Cynthia is perfida, a liar. I want to make a case for Propertius' sickness. That Cynthia has lied to Propertius, and under oath too, may be granted. He says so
Catullus' English Channel
The Homeric Hymns
Propertius' ‘Paternal Ashes’
At 3.9.37–8, Propertius says that he will not bewail (sc. in epic verse) the destruction of Thebes by the Epigonoi or the earlier assault on the city by the Seven: non flebo in cineres arcem sedisse paternos Cadmi, nee septem proelia clade pari. That nec...pari in 38 refers to the Seven, with Lipsius' septem for the manuscripts' semper , J. D. Morgan demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt in his discussion of the couplet in CQ 36 (1986), 186–8. But…
Ovid's Art of Imitation. Propertius in the Amores
The Homeric Hymns
The Homeric Hymns
Catullus' English Channel
Cynthia's Bedside Manner
What kind of danger does Propertius face? The two traditional answers, a voyage at sea or sickness, were questioned and rejected recently in this journal by Alva W. Bennett.2 He argued that periclo (3) and timore (4) both refer to Propertius' dreadful suspicion that Cynthia is perfida, a liar. I want to make a case for Propertius' sickness. That Cynthia has lied to Propertius, and under oath too, may be granted. He says so
Mindful Philitas
Ovid's Art of Imitation. Propertius in the Amores
"Propertius, "Founts Divine
Catullus Lxiv 287-88
Propertius' ‘Paternal Ashes’
At 3.9.37–8, Propertius says that he will not bewail (sc. in epic verse) the destruction of Thebes by the Epigonoi or the earlier assault on the city by the Seven: non flebo in cineres arcem sedisse paternos Cadmi, nee septem proelia clade pari. That nec...pari in 38 refers to the Seven, with Lipsius' septem for the manuscripts' semper , J. D. Morgan demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt in his discussion of the couplet in CQ 36 (1986), 186–8. But…
Climactic Delay in Lucretius
Noting that standard interpretation of sollicitat ... amoris has woman rousing or inciting her lover to run through or complete of Jacobson declares that such a reading almost intolerable in context. Lucretius has just said that a woman not always feign sexual excitement and passion (nec muller semper ficto suspirat amore, 1192), so that when he now speaks of one who does it from heart (facit ex animo) as seeking common joys he must mean that she…
The Fragments of Mimnermus: Text and Commentary
Lucretius, D.R.N. 5.948
In his account of primitive people in D.R.N. 5 Lucretius says that they led a wandering, nomadic sort of existence (932, ‘vulgivago vitam tractabant more ferarum’); ignorant of agriculture and husbandry, they were content to eat nuts and berries and the like (933ff.), while streams and springs called them to quench their thirst (945ff.): denique nota vagis silvestria templa tenebant nympharum... The rest of the sentence is a lush description of t…
Propertius and ‘Coan Philitas’
This is our well received text of Propertius' celebrated address to the shades of Callimachus and Philitas at 3.1.1–2: Callimachi Manes et Coi sacra Philitae, in vestrum, quaeso, me sinite ire nemus. Well received it may be, but scholarly worries and disagreements about the precise meaning of sacra , and indeed about the real purpose of the address, perhaps have diverted editors' eyes from a possible corruption. I would like to suggest that the p…
Words amiss at Plato, Phaedo 118a1–4
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Horace’s satelles orci ( odes 2.18.34)
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Horace, Odes 2.14.14
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Virgil's Acquisitive Bees
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Presbyopic Corruption: Plato, Symposivm 219a
Alcibiades relates Socrates' warning on his proposal for a reciprocal exchange of beauty; he should take a better look (ἄμεινον σκόπει) in case he is mistaken about Socrates' beauty and true worth: ἥ τοι τῆς διανοίας ὄψις ἄρχεται ὀξὺ βλέπειν ὅταν ἡ τῶν ὀμμάτων τῆς ἀκμῆς λήγειν ἐπιχειρῆι· σὺ δὲ τούτων ἔτι πόρρω, ‘the sight of the mind, you know, begins to see sharply when the sight of the eyes attempts (?) to fade from its prime—but you (are) stil…
Ὦ Φαληρεύς: Plato, Symp . 172a
Scholarly efforts to detect playfulness in the address to Apollodorus at Pl. Symp . 172a are reviewed and found unsatisfactory. In keeping with the dialogue’s erotic theme and comic spirit, a small supplemental emendation of the address’s Φαληρεύς is proposed to effect a phallic mock-demotic à la Aristophanes, Φαλ ηρεύς
Convivial Bed-Wetters: Lucr. 4.1026–9
This note offers a new conjecture on the manuscripts’ puri at Lucr. 4.1026 which would identify more clearly the dreaming bed-wetters as well-wined dinner guests
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