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Catullus 61.90–6

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Bernhard Georg
Bernhard Georg
Affiliation:
Wadham College, OxfordUniversität Bonn
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Extract

As the majority of the editors read the text of Catullus 61.90–6, it contains a couple of emendations, among which the most significant is the addition of the line prodeas nova nupta after v.90 in order to complete the strophe.

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Shorter Notes
Information
The Classical Quarterly , Volume 46 , Issue 1 , May 1996 , pp. 302 - 304
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1996

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References

1 This refrain cannot be supplied at the end of str.16, because it would introduce a second person between the transmitted third persons adest and flet.

2 Kroll, W., C. Valerius Catullus (Stuttgart,5 1968), ad loc.Google Scholar

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7 Cf. Fedeli ad loc.:‘ The words si videtur (videbitur) are actually found, besides Plautus (Capt. 218), in polite expressions of some of Cicero's correspondents… and in a letter from Fronto to Marcus Aurelius (Epist. 84.6 van den Hout).’Google Scholar

8 I cite from the 1680 Utrecht Variorum edition.

9 Tarrant, R. J., TAPhA 117 (1987), 295: ‘… its distinctive mark is a desire to prolong, to elaborate or even to surpass the text which inspires it.’Google Scholar

10 Knoche, U. was the first to point out suspect versus repetiti in Catullus; cf. RhM 85 (1936), 26, particularly n. 1.Google Scholar

11 This is, of course, only a welcome additional result of the deletion, and not a point upon which the argumentation can be based.