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Notes on Propertius 4. 1 and 4. 4

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

J. L. Marr
J. L. Marr
Affiliation:
University College of Wales, Aberystwyth
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Editors are divided on the interpretation of nuda. According to Butler and Barber ad loc. it denotes the absence of defensive armour. D. R. Shackleton Bailey, Propertiana, 217 understands it primarily with reference to offensive weapons. ‘Battles fought with sharpened sticks were nuda by comparison with swords and pila.’ Camps compromises: ‘nuda presumably = inermia, which may be used to indicate absence either of offensive or of defensive arms, so that probably both ideas are present here.’

Type
Research Article
Information
The Classical Quarterly , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , May 1970 , pp. 160 - 173
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1970

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