Textual Notes on Lucan VIII. and Seneca Dialogi
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9665808 |
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| Authors | J P Postgate (University of Liverpool, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1915 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 99-103 |
| Publication date | 1915-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Classical Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0009-8388 • E-ISSN: 1471-6844 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0009838800006327 |
| OpenAlex | W2110851713 |
| Language | EN |
So in this outburst of Cornelia should line 104 be punctuated. For the poenas crudelis compare VII. 431 ‘quod semper saeuas debet tibi Parthia poenas ’ and Verg. A. 6. 501 quis tam crudelis optauit sumere poenas ? whence, or from ib. 585, ‘uidi et crudelis dantem Salmonea poenas ’ we may suppose Lucan derived it. The feeble vulgate punctuation which puts the comma after crudelis , supposed to be vocative, well exemplifies the mischievous influence of propinquity.—I now find the correct punctuation in W. E. Weber's Corpus, but with the needless alteration of crudel e s
Art · Linguistics · Literature · Punctuation · Classical Antiquity Studies · Linguistics and language evolution · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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