“L’importante è finire”. Ancora a proposito del riuso di Verg. Aen. 4.415 in Auson. Epigr. 75.8 Green
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21370271 |
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| Authors | Vincenzo Ortoleva (0000-0003-3910-5152, Università di Catania , Dipartimento di Scienze Umanistiche , Piazza Dante 32 , Catania Italy, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 167 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 144-155 |
| Publication date | 2023-06-05 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philologus (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-7985 • E-ISSN: 2196-7008 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/phil-2023-0119 |
| OpenAlex | W4381619400 |
| Language | IT |
| References cited | 10 |
In the complete quotation of Verg. Aen. 4.415 in Auson. Epigr. 75.8 Green, the participle moritura , originally referring to Dido, takes on the obscene double entendre of “about to orgasm”, matching analogous attestations of this distinctive sense of the verb morior
Art · Linguistics · Participle · Verb · Classical Antiquity Studies · Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition · Linguistics and language evolution · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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