Catulli Veronensis liber

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VI-UA Syntactici an among the Psychologi sis By BASIL L.

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Catulli Veronensis Liber, erklari VON GUSTAV FRIEDRICH Sammiung Wissenschasilicher Kommentare zu gri echis clienunci romischen SchristStellern). Teubner, 19 8. This volume contains 6 I pages of texi, sollowed by 499 pages of notes, with an actuat verbiaile far in excess of Ellis 's extendeclcommentary. It is the work of a Catullus enthusiast who has explored the Catullus country about the Lago di Garda and iis em uenis, and observed the Mediterranean Isiands, their tides, beaches and al ae. It is a Work of rnany Si ded learning and inquiry ; sertile in palaeographicat lore and expedient; reso urceiulin literary parallel; adroit in textuat interpretation and exegesis and the psychological data thereto contributory; observant ofli se and society tili it conveys the Sense of Swagger) ; interested howe ver inexpert) in the interpretation of linguistic phe nomena; affluent in SuggestiVeneSs; venturesome; flippant

at ways and every here abject toWard Catullus; but interesting, provocative and, to Speah stom a Sense os personat gratitude, instructive. And hecause I have been interested and instructeri,

λ Di magni. salaputtium insolentem l squo' Dr. Μ agnus). Format hiemishes: I) needless repetitions; e. g., Sil. Ital. I 4, 36I- quoted twice on fame page 325); p. 366 repeats. almost without Change, Some Io lines hom p. 334 ; p. 346 repeais from eis ewhere some excellent remarhsabout not culti nil out the unusual from a writer I Constantly rings the Changeson traductio '-repetition os a word with flight disserence in stiade os mean-ing: et) long demonstrations of the obvious, a) in palaeography, the Samephe nomenon being osten talien up halna-doeten times ἰ e. gia P. 240, I 5 linesos examples of the confusion clId ; p. 236, severat lines for bIV : pp. Ι 8Ι, 286 et saepe) 8 and II lines sor confusion of iisu, nu/mi, etc.-but in spite os allthese repetitions the note on I. I satis to explain the limitation os the shistos LIT promised on p. 343: p. I 64. having convincingly corrected parum topari in , squanders a fuit page to do the work of two lines; p. 2II, examples of confusion estget; b) in syntax. etc., p. 476. long list os examples of incorporaled antecedent; P. 46o, cf. ad ra Cheg ἰ p. II S, 6 ex amples sor nullus m non L. and Sh. give II, or Sto asser 3); p. 3II, inustrates at tength hinc ma me, etc. p. 237 defends at tengili change of MS subito to subido in Aulus Gellius I9, 9, II, though the Teubner edition prinis subido: 3) changes numbering os lines in c. 6 I and cites Neve in the penultimate edition p. 367).

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By the assumption os Vorausnalime des V V cs. Schulge, Late in . Eigenn.2oq) we justisy the quite inescapable equation os Κερβερος with Shr. Cabdias. on p. 75 Fr. actualty decides that c. 6 I is earlier than c. 68 hecause of the preponderance of -ier infinitives in 6 I. y Friedricli rightly disregards the import. is I mistahe it not myseis, of the sentiment of Iolin Selden Table Taik q, q): To quote a modern Dutchman where Ι may use a classic author, is ag is I were to justisy my reputation, and I sicin neglect ali persons os note and quality that know me, and bring the testimonial of the scullion in the kitchen. For the consusion os pse in Catullus ΜSS Μunro son Aetna 182, and p. 20 seems to me a be iter potnt of departure than a schoolboy's pote sor cote in

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Sil. Ital 0, 6o3 sor the Same Correction. But the generat altitude of the author towardS text-Critici Sm,however he may sali Short of his ideais, is found . He notes onp. 263, sor example, that tWo grammatical or metrical peculiarities

ipsa m domina. Contrari Wise, to Save the insensitive Romanear, he rejecis one of 7 ConSecutive est 's in 6o, 6o-64; and in 47, 2 CorrectS mundi to Saecli, on the persectly futile plea that the Sense Apeople' cloes not appear sor mundus till-Horace

saecli .

And now to proceed with more delail. Fr. has a marked talent sor Seeing glosses in the corruptions of the text. No the glosses in Catullus MSS are ei ther ductus ossias,' or else glosses os grammatical interpretation. proceed ing stom scribes oro in ners users) of ΜSS, Who would inseri an O, Say, abOVe a Vocative, or a quia at the beginning ofa phrase logically, but not

textuat correction is the mistahe of contractions. In his use of

Note the curious long-distance skipping Friedrich himself mahes-thanks to the way we scholars put our notes on stips-p. 360, ad Vs. 259 : alliterationfindet sicli ebenso v. 250. pars obscura cauis celebrabant orgia cistis, sprichstelebranda listis ) ad v. 287, Μ eliasin linquens claris celebranda choreis sprichielebranda). I use the word correction advised ly. for the pastus of C., reported by Μodius, would probably tum out a ductus misreading sor partus; and theemendation raptus seems to me probably right on PIR cf. Fr. I48, 2O6. 25-even in inscriptions).δThis Italian musical term is a great convenience sor describi nil such a texi readine as sarcus al. partus, When the scribe. unable to decide whether his original had c or l, reported both possibilities; such a gloss would commonly be superposed.

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saltumque recunditorum explained stom saltumque reconditorum, but I should rather find an explanation to accord with cunuenit Cunfceratur cummunibus umnium in a copy of the edici os

in Archaic. that is to say sacrat intention cf. p. 478). may have furnished themotive for this spei ling, cf. virtutei on a Scipio epitaph of I3o B. C.

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III. Particular emendationS: ΑΙ, 1 2o8), A me an. a. puella)emended to Aminaea des weinland's ς Tocliter' . But our lacla of knoaeledge of a locality named Ameae do es not prove iis non-exiStence. Why not Correct to Anneci ana, imagining Catullus to be indulgi nil in his habit ut Suos quoque attingat, an cllocating the puella at Anneianum Castellum)' in Gallia Transpadana, not far frOm Verona, and with in the wintering circuit os Caesar and Μamurrat What so likely as for Catullus to use provincia, fous couri, of the province ' in which he lived Z-41, 8 III). Fr. read S eSi imaginosa, and I belleve his interpretation tobe correct, but imagino Sum is perhaps suscepti ble to des ence ;cf. Vergirs varium et mutabile Semper semina and Cicero's rogeS

pataeographicalty in Sufficient, as the ΜSS read tempta or templa D), the change LIT being easy enough sor a capital MS. Heretempla might be defended, as the victim S were coming there aSto a place of sacrifice 8 cf. 13a, patriis ab aris). ς But Fr. may have given the right verdici on the reacling, sor in Lucretius 2, 28 Μacrobius read S tecta where OO have templa .-64, 2O5

42o), for the extraction of hic liquidi uario out of hi dii ven ibi uen' - Venus bei nil excised as a gloss: cf. 64, 8 where diva is glossed by uen) nothi nil but admiration can be seli.-7I, I p. 472, and pasSim) Sacer alarum os the Itali is certainly rightand , neglecti nil ait the subiteties of Fr., Sacratorum etc. are ali

First recorded in the Itinerarium Antonini. Caesar B. G. I, Io, S) uses citerior provincia; and has extra proVinciam. The psychological phenomenon is attested by the nam es Provence and Cologne: cf. in c. IT, I, Catullus's own use of Colonia without specification. y For my own pari, I can but insist on a canon os criticism something as follows: In spite os ali the vicissitudes to πhich ΜSS have been subject in transmission, an intelligibie and metrical texi has the nine potnts of the law, possession, in iis savor: why for 64. I 25 3643 give good reasons for read inglonge. and then bet ter ones for the longa os the ΜSSy

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AMERICAN IOURNAL OF PHILOLOGY.as the Sole fons viti.-78h : pace Fr., who admits that change os person cloes not invalidate the contention, 78h is an integral partos 78. In 78h I see an enuoi to Gallus who, having first been proclai med pander belween his nephew and Si Ster-in-law, is thendirectly usebraideri as the dirty lover of a decent giri. Nor do Ilook for Lesbia in every pura) puella Catullus mentions. The

ineptiarum lectores eritis, manusque ueStras non horrebitis admovere nobis, Cnon horrebitis admonere me id uos .y-83, 6

5o7): coquitur sor loquitur is not to be approvecl; in uritur et

means und et ar ' cf. p. I 45), or beller and So ' cf. L. and Sh., S. V., II F.), while loquitur is the Simplex repeating the obloquitur of V. 4 cf. Am. Ir. Phil. , 24, 262).-II 4, 1 548). Instead os Firmano saltu I should advocate Firmani SJ Saltus. IV. Stylistic and Literary. Not without the power himself tollit ois a ringing phrase, Friedricli is aware that poetic license indiction is poetic choice with in as wide a range of dialect as the poet Commanus 3O8, 328, 337), Subject only to the restrictions of his own taste and judement.' He knows that the vulgar is ostenonly archaic 16o , and that the archaic may give the religious note 478), and he rightly estimates the worth of redundancy. Sensitive to diction, he osten notes verbal repetition, with change in the shade of mean ing 4OI ; cf. traductio, p. 553).' LucretiUS, Catullus' and Prudentius constitute his immortat trio os poetsthat wrote in Latin 396), and de Μusset is his modern immortal 303 . He counters Antimachus 5 et a) with Nataly von Esch struth-not knowing our own Laura Jean Libby. Interested in

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literary tradition, he gathers apostrophes to the Separating doorSfrom as sar aWay as Babylon 436), omitting, hoWeVer, to mention the wali os Pyramus' and Thisbe in The Midsummer Night's Dream. He is interested also in questions os laci and lise, thealga on the beach 338 , the eternat charm os Sirmio 18o) ; and he attributes to Catullus a found , healthy interest in geography 119), not similarly exhibited by de Musset ς a child of the times

of the Murrays and Joannes . The scurrae eleganteS of modern

sondneSs fir persum es come in for notice, and the Cybele frenetyis malched with the Salvation Army.' We may note for Specialadmiration the illowing statem ent of the influence of Sout onScenery Ι 82): nichi der Benacus lachi, und nichi das Haus kicheri aus alien Echen sondern Catullus lachi, Uno clarum scheint ilim alles rings etu lachen. V. Interpretation: Friedricli 's interpretations of cc. 67 and 68are particularly interesting and attractive, and deserve Caresulattention. He Seems to me to have given to IIa a final interpre

special potnis, reservi nil sor another occasion the attempt to solve certain dissiculties not solved, Ι think, by Friedricli :-7, 9, tam te basia multa basiare: te is SubjeCt.-8, 12, Uale puella

reCherchsi ': these adjectives do not prove to me that libelli hadnot hesore then been used sor Saturnalia presentS, only that Calvus had not worked off so teasine a present on Catullus

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AMERICAN IOURNAL OF PHILOLOGY. Spectat woros, aethera album ' 3O5; 63, 4o) : the comparisonos Fr. aube clawn ' is instructive, but why is not Ach. Statius

primum tenebris abiectis in cl albabat Cf. APUl. Met. 7, I . . inalbebat), to whicli adcl Aen. 4, 586: . . ut Primum albeSCere

of an Allius were always more conveniently arranged sor the

This use of album reveais the impori os Ennius, Ann. 80- :80 interea sol albus recessit in infera noctis ;exin candida se radiis dedit ista foras lux, et simul ex alto longe pulcherrima praepes

laeua uolauit auis; simul aureus exoritur Sol, Here in insera noctis means ad imam noctem. and sol albus suggesis prima lux, lyaube, CL Ann. Ioa, cum superum lumen nox intempesta teneret,

Where, is superum lumen he the gentili, the furthesi potnt helow the genithwould properly be called inserum. Aster the alba comes aurora s0o), and thensuriri se 02ὶ of obvious derivation from mst Ia 1a: one wonders Whether Μessalina was meant, in spite os the lack of rhythmical balance. y Priap. I 0 and Μartial I4, 2o3 seem to stand in some relation os fource and

sequent.

I have always thought of it as a verti os motion cs. iter , like Superare.