SUL TESTO DI CATULLO 2, 5–8
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Vincenzo Ortoleva
Abstract
There have been many interpretations of Catullus’ poem 2 (on his girlfriend’s sparrow) and especially of verses 5-8. The first part of this study presents the status quaestionis, listing the main interpretations and conjectures (but omitting those which alter the transmitted text unnecessarily). In the second part two new interpretations of vv. 5-8 are advanced, without modifying the text of manuscripts OGR. According to the first, the words cum desiderio meo … lubet iocari are understood as a substantive clause dependent on the verb credo, which also governs et solaciolum as a predicative. Alternatively, solaciolum may be taken as predicative of an understood object te (also dependent on credo) referring to passer in the first verse. In either case, ut cum (which occurs in Quintilian, but with the subjunctive and in a causal sense) with the transmitted future acquiescet can have temporal force, as recently argued by Paul Claes (see also Boeth. cons. 2, 2, 10: … ne uticum ludicri mei ratio poscet descendere iniuriam putes)56.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Inhalt
- ATTHIS, GYRINNO, AND OTHER HETAIRAI: FEMALE PERSONAL NAMES IN SAPPHO’S POETRY
- ANTIGONE’S LANGUAGE OF DEATH AND POLITICS IN THE ANTIGONE OF SOPHOCLES
- THE RHETORICAL FUNCTION OF THE PERFECT IN CLASSICAL GREEK
- LE PRÉTENDU ÉLOGE DE LA CHEVELURE DE DION DE PRUSE: OEUVRE DE PURE RHÉTORIQUE OU DÉCLARATION DE FOI PHILOSOPHIQUE?
- DUE FRAMMENTI DI PARODIA FILOSOFICO-RELIGIOSA: I FRR. 582a–b E 583 B DELLE MENIPPEE DI VARRONE
- SUL TESTO DI CATULLO 2, 5–8
- ZWEI NEUE DICHTERZITATE BEIM ALTEN CATO
- REDEN ZU GOTT, BETEN ZU GÖTTERN
- HENRICH HUDEMANN (ca. 1595–1628) – HOLSTEINS HORAZ
- MISZELLEN
- A POETIC ETYMOLOGY OF A NAME IN PIND. P. 4. 156–158
- NOTE AI PERSIANI DI ESCHILO
- CREATING ROOM FOR DOUBT
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Inhalt
- ATTHIS, GYRINNO, AND OTHER HETAIRAI: FEMALE PERSONAL NAMES IN SAPPHO’S POETRY
- ANTIGONE’S LANGUAGE OF DEATH AND POLITICS IN THE ANTIGONE OF SOPHOCLES
- THE RHETORICAL FUNCTION OF THE PERFECT IN CLASSICAL GREEK
- LE PRÉTENDU ÉLOGE DE LA CHEVELURE DE DION DE PRUSE: OEUVRE DE PURE RHÉTORIQUE OU DÉCLARATION DE FOI PHILOSOPHIQUE?
- DUE FRAMMENTI DI PARODIA FILOSOFICO-RELIGIOSA: I FRR. 582a–b E 583 B DELLE MENIPPEE DI VARRONE
- SUL TESTO DI CATULLO 2, 5–8
- ZWEI NEUE DICHTERZITATE BEIM ALTEN CATO
- REDEN ZU GOTT, BETEN ZU GÖTTERN
- HENRICH HUDEMANN (ca. 1595–1628) – HOLSTEINS HORAZ
- MISZELLEN
- A POETIC ETYMOLOGY OF A NAME IN PIND. P. 4. 156–158
- NOTE AI PERSIANI DI ESCHILO
- CREATING ROOM FOR DOUBT
