Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of editions consulted
- Abbreviations
- 1 Horatiana 〚I〛
- 2 Ibis 539
- 3 On Soph. Electr. 564, and Eur. I.T. 15 and 35
- 4 On certain corruptions in the Persae of Aeschylus
- 5 Isocr. Paneg. §40
- 6 Schol. on Aesch. P.V. 488 〚472〛
- 7 CωφPONH
- 8 Emendationes Propertianae
- 9 The Agamemnon of Aeschylus
- 10 Note on Emendations of Propertius
- 11 Horatiana 〚II〛
- 12 Notes on Latin poets 〚I〛
- 13 Persius III. 43
- 14 Conjectural emendations in the Medea
- 15 Review: T. G. Tucker, The Supplices of Aeschylus
- 16 Review: I. Flagg, Euripides' Iphigenia among the Taurians
- 17 Horace, Carm. iv. 2, 49
- 18 Notes on Latin poets 〚II〛
- 19 Horatiana 〚III〛
- 20 Emendations in Ovid's Metamorphoses
- 21 The new fragment of Euripides
- 22 Adversaria orthographica
- 23 The Oedipus Coloneus of Sophocles
- 24 Sophoclea
- 25 Remarks on the Vatican Glossary 3321
- 26 Soph. Oed. Col 527
- 27 The manuscripts of Propertius 〚I〛
- 28 The manuscripts of Propertius 〚II〛
- 29 Review: K. P. Schulze, Catulli Veronensis liber
- 30 The manuscripts of Propertius 〚III〛
- 31 A note on Virgil
- 32 The manuscripts of Propertius 〚IV〛
- 33 Review: J. P. Postgate, Sexti Properti carmina
- 34 Cicero Pro Milone c. 33 §90
- 35 Ovid's Heroides 〚I〛
- 36 Ovid's Heroides 〚II〛
- 37 Ovid's Heroides 〚III〛
- 38 Ovid's Heroides 〚IV〛
- 39 Ovid's Heroides 〚V〛
18 - Notes on Latin poets 〚II〛
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2010
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of editions consulted
- Abbreviations
- 1 Horatiana 〚I〛
- 2 Ibis 539
- 3 On Soph. Electr. 564, and Eur. I.T. 15 and 35
- 4 On certain corruptions in the Persae of Aeschylus
- 5 Isocr. Paneg. §40
- 6 Schol. on Aesch. P.V. 488 〚472〛
- 7 CωφPONH
- 8 Emendationes Propertianae
- 9 The Agamemnon of Aeschylus
- 10 Note on Emendations of Propertius
- 11 Horatiana 〚II〛
- 12 Notes on Latin poets 〚I〛
- 13 Persius III. 43
- 14 Conjectural emendations in the Medea
- 15 Review: T. G. Tucker, The Supplices of Aeschylus
- 16 Review: I. Flagg, Euripides' Iphigenia among the Taurians
- 17 Horace, Carm. iv. 2, 49
- 18 Notes on Latin poets 〚II〛
- 19 Horatiana 〚III〛
- 20 Emendations in Ovid's Metamorphoses
- 21 The new fragment of Euripides
- 22 Adversaria orthographica
- 23 The Oedipus Coloneus of Sophocles
- 24 Sophoclea
- 25 Remarks on the Vatican Glossary 3321
- 26 Soph. Oed. Col 527
- 27 The manuscripts of Propertius 〚I〛
- 28 The manuscripts of Propertius 〚II〛
- 29 Review: K. P. Schulze, Catulli Veronensis liber
- 30 The manuscripts of Propertius 〚III〛
- 31 A note on Virgil
- 32 The manuscripts of Propertius 〚IV〛
- 33 Review: J. P. Postgate, Sexti Properti carmina
- 34 Cicero Pro Milone c. 33 §90
- 35 Ovid's Heroides 〚I〛
- 36 Ovid's Heroides 〚II〛
- 37 Ovid's Heroides 〚III〛
- 38 Ovid's Heroides 〚IV〛
- 39 Ovid's Heroides 〚V〛
Summary
Catullus LXIV. 279–87
Aduenit Chiron portans siluestria dona;
nam quoscumque ferunt campi, quos Thessala magnis
montibus ora creat, quos propter fluminis undas
aura aperit flores tepidi fecunda Fauoni,
hos indistinctis plexos tulit ipse corollis,
quo permulsa domus iucundo risit odore.
confestim Penios adest, uiridantia Tempe,
Tempe, quae siluae cingunt super impendentes,
Haemonisin linquens doris celebranda choreis.
Before dealing with the last verse I will offer a short defence of the conjecture ‘aperit’ for ‘perit’, v. 282, which has already seen the light in Mr Postgate's edition. The vulgate text is ‘parit’, which a later hand has written in G over the erasure of the original reading; O has the abbreviation which regularly stands for ‘perit’ but may according to the practice of that scribe signify ‘parit’ also. If the tradition is ‘perit’, then ‘aperit’ since an a precedes is an easier change than ‘parit’; while even if ‘parit’ were clearly given by the MSS I should think it hardly suitable: it is surely ‘terra’ or ‘flumen’ that ‘parit flores’, just as ‘campi ferunt’ and ‘ora creat’ in the lines above: the function of ‘aura’ is more properly expressed by ‘aperit’.
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