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Wholly Spondaic Lines in Homer
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 January 2009
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In his notes T. E. Page often points out Virgil's ‘accommodation of sound to sense’. Postgate declares ‘Spondees are employed to express Seriousness or Melancholy’. But spondees of course are employed otherwise as well; and in general we are often warned against finding in the text what the poet did not intend. The cautioners too should beware, of missing a relevant point.
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page 3 note 1 In Od. i–vi there are examples at: i. 39; ii. 233, 423; iii. 101; iv. 247, 279, 331, 607, 684; v. 11, 32; vi. 3, 114, 182, 202, 259, 318. Full statistics for the Iliad and Odyssey are in La Roche, J., ‘Zahlenverhältnisse im homerischen Vers', Wiener Studien, xx (1898), 1–69.Google Scholar (He does not admit iv. 607 or vi. 318.)
page 4 note 1 ἀνστὰς ἐξ εὐνῆς, ἐπεὶ οὐ πολὺ ναῑεν ᾀπ' αὐτοῦ and θῆκ' αὐτοῦ προπάροιθε.…
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page 5 note 2 iii. 104.
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