Abstract
This article defends Baehrens’ reading cenam for caelum at Catullus 6.17 as more sensible than scholars have thought, based on allusions to Meleager, AP 5.175. It then proposes a new emendation to the line that is suggested by this Greek source.
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- Frontmatter
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- The Dramatization of Emotions in Iliad 24.552–658
- Invocazione al “signore dell’anima che sempre vive”: Melanipp. PMG 762
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