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Vindiciae Propertianae.—III

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

J. P. Postgate
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The Classical Review , Volume 16 , Issue 6 , July 1902 , pp. 306 - 315
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1902

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page 307 note 1 Sexti Properti Carmina recognovit Phillimore, Ioannes S. Clarendon Press 1901 PraefatioGoogle Scholar. The Latin words of Professor Phillimore which I have placed in italics mean, it is true, that Mr. Housman ‘has put me on my trial for the same wantonness as his own:’ but Mr. Housman has assuredly never made this charge.

page 307 note 2 The Nation (New York) 1898 p. 318.Google Scholar

page 310 note 1 One point however omitted in my defence (C.R. xv. p. 407) I should like to make here. If the objection to the stop which I placed after una be analysed, it will be found to consist chiefly of a dislike to the emphasis which a pause here is imagined to throw upon the adjective. This is a mere illusion, engendered by the customs of modern verse which associates a strong stress with a pause in or after the first foot. To the ears of all who have not shaken off these associations lines like Eur. Or. 1659 721 are hideous; and so you will read pages of modern Greek iambics without finding one. Mr. W. Headlam long ago pointed out that a pause after the first foot of a tragic trimeter imparted of itself no sort of emphasis. So too in Latin verse. Let the reader turn the pages of Propertius and he will soon see how numerous are the cases where the modern habit would make the emphasis false. I. iv. 20 ‘quaeret;’ 22 ‘differet,’ v. 32 ‘quaerere:’ vi 34 ‘ibis,’ viii. 32 ‘dicitur.’ γυῶθι σεαυτόυis the first duty of the critic and usually the last that he attends to.

page 311 note 1 The general sense would not be affected if we accepted Mr. Housman's attractive emendation ‘nec tua sic socero colla daturas eras.’

page 314 note 1 These two considerations have not escaped Mr. Housman, C.R. l.c. p. 354.