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Notes on the text and interpretation of Horace’s Odes and Carmen Saeculare

Abstract:
This paper gathers together notes on passages from ten of Horace’s lyric poems (offering conjectures as listed): Carm. 1.31.1–8 (6: arbusta); 1.37.5–8 (7: tam demens); 2.1.37–40 (37: at); 2.10.21–24 (22: appares); 2.12.13–16; 2.13.13–16 (15: paulisper horrescit); 2.17.17–30 (19: seu] te; 24: Leti); 2.18.9–12 (11–12: deos | supra); 3.27.13–16 (13: licet] precor); Carmen Saeculare 29–48 (33–36 after 8 or 24; 44: iura). Topics touched on include Horatian usage and word order, the shape of lyric expression, and some patterns of textual corruption, in particular the alteration of precor to licet (starting from Ovid, Metamorphoses 9.503, with discussion of possible cases at 3.405 and 9.480, and Heroides 20.9).
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10.1515/9783111577289-014

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University of Oxford
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HUMS
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Classics
Oxford college:
Wolfson College
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Institution:
University of Oxford
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HUMS
Department:
Classics
Oxford college:
Wadham College
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0000-0001-8959-9205

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Publisher:
De Gruyter
Host title:
Classical Enrichment: Greek and Latin Literature and its Reception
Pages:
217-234
Place of publication:
Berlin/Boston
Publication date:
2024-11-04
Edition:
1
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9783111577289
ISBN:
9783111576848


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English
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2037400
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2026-02-23
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