A Stichometric Allusion to Catullus 64 in the Culex
An Addendum
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9666192 |
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| Authors | Dunstan Lowe (0000-0002-7664-4027, University of Kent, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 891-891 |
| Publication date | 2015-12-01 |
| 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/s0009838815000397 |
| OpenAlex | W2605405223 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
I am grateful to Edward Courtney for observing that the stichometric correspondence between the Culex and Catullus 64 is close but not exact, since Culex 132–3 really echoes not 132–3 but 133–4. The conventional line-numbering of Catullus 64 conceals the half-line 23b, progenies saluete iter ..., which is invisibly missing from the manuscripts but was salvaged by Francesco Orioli from the Scholia Veronensia on Verg. Aen . 5.80 and is universally accepted. Emendations vary, but all assume a haplographic error caused by an instance of the patterned repetition so typical of Catullus (which indeed is what the Culex author is imitating at 132-3). Consequently, the perfide ... perfide correspondence becomes a partial and not complete overlap, belonging together with many of Knauer's Virgilian examples in the category of ‘near misses’
Addendum · Allusion · Art · Geometry · Line (geometry · Linguistics · Literature · Repetition (rhetorical device · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · Mathematics · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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