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Horace, Odes III. 19. Does it Contain ‘A Gap in Time’?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

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Admirers of Horace's Odes have cause to be grateful to Professor Gordon Williams for his recent edition of Book iii, with its illuminating and fascinating introduction and commentaries on individual odes. It is arguable, however, that he has misinterpreted iii. 19, ‘Quantum distet ab Inacho’.

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Research Article
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1971

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page 188 note 1 Williams, Gordon, The Third Book of Horace's Odes (Oxford, 1969).Google Scholar

page 188 note 2 Campbell, A. Y., Horace: A New Interpretation (London, 1924), 221 and 225.Google Scholar

page 188 note 3 Presumably for mixing with the wine. ‘Quis aquam temperet ignibus’ has also been taken as referring to the actual mixing of the wine and water, ignis standing for ‘wine’. According to some, the sentence refers, strangely, to the heating of water for baths.

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page 189 note 2 Michie, James, The Odes of Horace (London, 1964).Google Scholar See his note on this ode.

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