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Notes on the Thebaid of Stativs
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 February 2009
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The Thebaid is not easy reading, and copyists (and at times, I fear, editors) have not helped to make it easier. There are many pitfalls in the language of Statius, and words cannot be taken always at their face value. I have erred myself and suffered. It may be of interest to give a few instances.
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page 175 note 1 Dr. Purser points out a somewhat similar use of ferrum in Lucan VII. 228: ‘atque omnis Latio quae seruit purpura ferro.’
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