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Chapter XXXI - Livy

from Part 5 - Genres And Texts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 May 2021

J. N. Adams
J. N. Adams
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All Souls College, Oxford
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I have tried in this chapter to comment on every (possible) instance of asyndeton bimembre comprising two words in the following books of Livy: 4, 5, 9, 23, 30, 34, 38, 42. These books occupy about 697 pages of modern editions (OCTs and Teubners), which makes them collectively at least as long and probably longer than the whole of the Histories and Annals of Tacitus (see the conclusions below, 3.1). It will become clear that this type of asyndeton is rare in Livy. Quite a few of the examples numbered below are also open to doubt.

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Asyndeton and its Interpretation in Latin Literature
History, Patterns, Textual Criticism
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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  • Livy
  • J. N. Adams, All Souls College, Oxford
  • Book: Asyndeton and its Interpretation in Latin Literature
  • Online publication: 13 May 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108943284.032
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  • Livy
  • J. N. Adams, All Souls College, Oxford
  • Book: Asyndeton and its Interpretation in Latin Literature
  • Online publication: 13 May 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108943284.032
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