Critica: Textual Issues in Horace, Ennius, Vergil and Other Authors

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Gathering together over 60 new and revised discussions of textual issues, this volume represents notorious problems in well-known texts from the classical era by authors including Horace, Ennius, and Vergil. A follow-up to Vegiliana: Critical Studies on the Texts of Publius Vergilius Maro (2017), the volume includes major contributions to the discussion of Horace’s Carmen IV 8 and IV 12, along with studies on Catullus Carmen 67 and Hadrian’s Animula vagula, as well as a new contribution on Livy’s text at IV 20 in connection with Cossus’s spolia opima, and on Vergil’s Aeneid 3. 147–152 and 11. 151–153. On Ennius, the author presents several new ideas on Ann. 42 Sk. and 220–22l, and in editing Horace, he suggests new principles for the critical apparatus and tries to find a balance by weighing both sides in several studies, comparing a conservative and a radical approach. Critica will be an important resource for students and scholars of Latin language and literature. Cover Half Title Title Copyright Contents List of figures Preface Introduction Part I Horace 1 Epod. 1. Exemplifying challenges in editing Horace 2 Epod. 2. Sorting out conjectures 3 Epod. 5. 87 f.: The cruelty of witchcraft 4 Epod. 16. 15 f. How to escape a doomed society 5 Carm. 1. 28. 32.: A corruption in the Archytas ode? 6 Carm. 3. 2. 1. An appeal to friendly youth 7 Carm. 3. 4. 10. The terrified nurse 8 Carm. 3. 6. Its date and function 9 An appendix on the text of Carm. 3. 6 exempli gratia 10 Carm. 3. 14. 11. Bentley vindicated 11 Carm. 4. 8. 9–10. rerum replacing res 12 Carm. 4. 8. A distorted ode 13 Carm. 4.12. The enigmatic Vergili 14 Carm. 4. 14. 20–24. The misunderstood prope 15 Carm. 4. 15. 25–32. Trojan Anchises 16 Saec. 25–28. Prayer versus fact 17 Ep. 1. 1. 78. Greedy widows? 18 Ep. 2. 1. 45–46. Syntax to be simplified 19 Ep. 2. 1. 132–133. The bard as mediator 20 Ars 65. A late recognition of Bentley’s conjecture 21 Ars 120. Whose honour? 22 Ars. 254. Cruces or emendation? 23 Ars 353. An ignored question mark Bibliography I Part II Other authors 24 Conjectural emendation in three stages: Diagnosis, conjecture, interpretation 25 Ennius Ann. 42 Sk. Ilia left alone 26 Ennius Ann. 220–221 Sk. The nature of Discordia 27 Ennius Ann. 579 Sk. A statue for the conqueror 28 Ennius scen. 32 TrRF (= XLIII, 109–110 Joc.): The gemitus of Andromache 29 Ennius scen. 130 TrRF (= CXLVII, 288 Joc.): Telephus at Argos 30 Ennius Var. 17–18 V. Tears for the poet 31 Catullus 64. 313. The spinning Parcae 32 Catullus 67. In search of sense 33 Sallust Cat. 3. 5. Another deletion? 34 Sallust Cat. 57. 4. A locus conclamatus 35 Liv. 4. 20. Iuppiter feretrius, Livy and Augustus 36 Hadrian’s Animula vagula. Diagnosis and interpretation Bibliography II Part III Vergil 37 Ecl. 3. 100–102. A bull’s skin and bones 38 Ecl. 4. 40–62. A baby’s smile once more 39 G. 2. 20–22: The art of propagation 40 G. 2. 265–268. The nursery for vine plants 41 A. 1. 377. An instance of forte at stake 42 A. 3. 147–152. An epiphany and its textual issues 43 A. 9. 462 ff. The fruitfulness of a withdrawn charge 44 A. 11. 151–153. Pallas’ promise to Evander 45 Additions and second thoughts Bibliography III Index of readings discussed