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Ille Ego Qui Quondam…

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

R. G. Austin
R. G. Austin
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Of these lines Markland wrote in 1728 (on Statius, S. 5. 3. 8) ‘patet ignari cuiusdam et barbari interpolatoris esse’; Dr. Trapp in 1735 found them ‘in themselves flat, and improper, and altogether unworthy of Virgil’; ‘in his ipsis miror qui factum sit ut Viri Doctissimi non agnouerint orationis uim et elegantiam’ (Wagner, 1832); ‘finding in them … all Virgil's usual ease and suavity … [we] hail those verses with joy, and reinstate them in their rightful … position as the commencing verses of the great Roman epic’ (Henry, 1873); ‘uersus praeclarissimos iniuria poeta abiudicauerunt editores plerique’ (Hirtzel, OGT, 1901);

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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , May 1968 , pp. 107 - 115
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1968

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page 107 note 1 Authenticity is now supported by Duckworth, G. E., Structural Patterns and Proportions in Vergil's Aeneid (Ann Arbor, 1962), p. 84.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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page 108 note 1 The words occur among the Pompeian graffiti: see Hoogma, R. P., Der Einfluβ Ver-gils auf die Carmina Latina Epigraphica (Amsterdam, 1959), pp. 222 f.Google Scholar

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page 108 note 3 So DeWitt, N. W., CP xvi (1921), 344Google Scholar; the argument there made, that Virgil meant the lines to ‘guarantee for all time the unity of authorship’, is absurd. Virgil needed no such ‘guarantee’; if nothing else showed this, it is shown by Propertius' reference to the imminent Aeneid (2. 34. 65–66).Google Scholar

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page 109 note 1 Cf. Fraenkel, , Horace, p. 36a.Google Scholar

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page 109 note 3 Thus the lines appear in the sixteenth-century translations made by Gavin Douglas, Phaer, and Stanyhurst.

page 110 note 1 See Fraenkel, , Kleine Beiträge, ii. 148 f.Google Scholar

page 110 note 2 I cannot agree with Leo, who observes of the ‘Helen’ lines ‘besser als der unechte Angang sind sie nicht’ (Plautinische For-schungen2, p. 42).Google Scholar

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page 113 note 2 van Berchem, D. (RÉL. xx [1942], 73 ff.)Google Scholar propounded, apparently seriously, the view that the lines are a riposte by Virgil to Horace, , Sat. 2. 1. 13 ff.Google Scholar ‘neque enim quiuis horrentia pilis / agmina … describat’, together with other absurdities.

page 113 note 3 The Servian tradition made Tucca joint editor with Varius; but see Leo, , Plautiniscke Forschungen2, p. 41Google Scholar, Norden, , Hermes xxviii (1893), 501.Google Scholar

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page 113 note 6 Nisus' story of this has caused endless confusion, which fortunately does not con cern me here.

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