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Glacle Aspersvs Macvlis: Juvenal 5. 104

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

A. T. Von  and
S. Bradshaw
A. T. Von
Affiliation:
University College of Sierra Leone
S. Bradshaw
Affiliation:
University College of Sierra Leone
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The reader of Juvenal's fifth satire, making his way through the new Oxford text edited by W. V. Clausen, finds the sweep of the poet's indignant rhetoric interrupted by the obeli of 104. Reference to Clausen's paper which he quotes in support of his proposed reading glaucis sparsus (A.J.P. lxxvi [1955], 58–60) reveals that he proceeds from the assumption that the line is corrupt, and evidence that this is the case must be sought elsewhere.

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Research Article
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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , May 1965 , pp. 121 - 125
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1965

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References

page 121 note 1 See also C.Q. xxxix (1945), 46–48Google Scholar (A. Y. Campbell) and C.R. Ix (1946), 19–20 (D. S. Robertson).Google Scholar

page 122 note 1 The torrente horribly suggests the abundance of nourishment available to the fish. It is idle to argue that it implies that the current in the cloaca was too swift to freeze and that therefore glacie is wrong or can be tolerated only if torpente is read.

page 123 note 1 Whether saprolegnia is normally merely a saprophytic secondary invader or by itself pathogenic and potentially fatal (cf. Tiffney, in Mycologia xxxi [1939], 310–21) is a technicality we may ignore here. Fishermen regard the fungus as a maimer and killer.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

page 123 note 2 One fish the lupus could not be is the pike, as several of the ancient references make perfectly clear, but the identification of lupus and pike is many centuries old and still emerges occasionally (e.g. Campbell, in C.Q. xxxix [1945], 46–48CrossRefGoogle Scholar, and Orth in R.-E. xi. 1. 964, s.v. Kochkunst).Google Scholar

page 124 note 1 For example, Macleane, A. J., 1857: ‘The poor guest was put off with a frostbitten, mangy fish.’Google Scholar

page 124 note 2 For fish changing colour with the seasons, see Arist. H.A. 607b15–23 and Pliny, N.H. 9. 42. But on coloration and species the opinions of an experienced Italian fisherman of today might be more helpful than any number of ancient references.Google Scholar

page 125 note 1 I am indebted to the Editors for suggestions which enabled me to improve this paper and to Dr. P. E. H. Hair and Mr. R.J. Norman for checking sources inaccessible to me. The faults are mine.