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Anth. Pal. 12.152

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Howard Jacobson
Howard Jacobson*
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University of Illinois, Urbana
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Extract

The commentators have noticed the central role that wordplay performs in this epigram. Heraclitus the Magnesian is indeed a magnet, but it is the heart of the poet rather than iron that he attracts. As Gow-Page remark,does double duty. But that is only part of the story, for there lurks here yet a second play on words that reinforces the first.

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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 47 , Issue 1 , May 1997 , pp. 292
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1997

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References

1 Gow, A. S. F. and Page, D. L., The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams (Cambridge, 1965), vol. 2, p. 574.Google Scholar

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3 See too e.g. Plin. N. H. 36.126; Suda s.v. (Adler, 2.581).

4 I am indebted to Prof. David Sansone for helpful comments.