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Virgil's Cvlex

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

W. M. Lindsay
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May I call the attention of English scholars to a remark by Professor Heinze in his review of Professor Frank's Virgil, a Biography, viz. that the Culex was a favourite present for schoolboys in Martial's time (Mart. 14, 185)?

How all the difficulties vanish if we regard it as Virgil's first publication, a mere tale for a schoolboy, written to help young Octavian in the Greek Mythology class-work! A peg on which to hang this memoria technica had been, we may suppose, supplied to Virgil by a recent incident in Octavian's neighbourhood, the wonderful escape of a goatherd from a serpent.

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Research Article
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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 18 , Issue 2 , April 1924 , pp. 84
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1924

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page 84 note 1 Just as all the difficulties in the last couplet of Ecl. IV. vanish if we regard it as a nursery rhyme which Virgil weaves into his poem.

page 84 note 2 C.Q. April, 1917.