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“It would be understandable enough if Weber, faced with the labour of editing the entire corpus of Latin poetry, found himself unable to effect a radical revision of the text of the Ex Ponto.” Ovid, The Last Poems of Ovid · observation
“He [Lachmann] has in fact put every stanza and every verse on its trial.” Anonymous (Volks-epic tradition); special introduction by William H. Carpenter, The Nibelungenlied · observation
“The dream, however, is beyond all doubt the introduction, the fit and appropriate introduction, to a poem that must go on at least to the marriage of Kriemhild and the death of her husband.” Anonymous (Volks-epic tradition); special introduction by William H. Carpenter, The Nibelungenlied · insight
It supplies numbered textual notes on Sallust’s wording—how to read verbs like mūvere vs moveri, interpret phrases about times and places, and apply “law of nations” reasoning to Jugurtha’s retinue and ambassadors.
proceedings. Cicero, however, says that Caius Gallus *sacerdos*, with four *consulares*, Bestia, Caius Cato, Albinus, and Opimius, were condemned and exiled by this law of Mamilius. See Brut., c. 34. [142] XLI. Took, snatched, and seized--Ducere, *trahere, rapere*. "*Ducere* conveys the notion of cunning and fraud; *trahere* of some degree of force; *rapere* of open violence." *Muller*. The words chiefly refer to of…
The commentator argues that a Greek phrase should be understood as originally written immediately before another word, correcting the textual placement in Strabo’s Greek.
[2176] The modern names of Cape Lacinium, viz. Capo delle Colonne and Capo Nao, are derived from the remains of the temple, which is still visible on its summit. [2177] The text is here evidently deficient. Groskurd says that Strabo most probably wrote as follows, “As the chorographer says, Artemidorus reckons that [the journey would take 12 days for one travelling on foot], with his girdle on; [but, to one sailing,…
The editor argues that modern readers cannot easily understand Chaucer in old orthography, so he presents nineteenth-century spelling without changing words where meter, rhyme, or meaning require old forms, and defends this as preserving Chaucer’s intent while improving comprehension.
differ most from the plan pursued in this volume — will best appreciate the difficulty of the enterprise, and most leniently regard any failure in the details of its accomplishment. With all the works of Chaucer, outside The Canterbury Tales, it would have been absolutely impossible to deal within the scope of this volume. But nearly one hundred pages, have been devoted to his minor poems; and, by dint of careful s…
It summarizes Lachmann’s theory that the poem is a patchwork of twenty distinct lays by different authors, largely rejected by critics, and explains why the unity of episodes and abrupt transitions undermine it.
the poem, taking Wolf's Prolegomena to Homer for his model, set up the theory that has since played an important part in the discussion of the genesis of the "Nibelungenlied." According to the Lachmann theory, the poem consists of no less than twenty distinct lays, each differing inherently from the rest, and each, with the exception of the Eighth and Ninth, by different authors. To arrive at this result, more than …
The passage surveys modern editors of Ovid’s Ex Ponto IV, arguing that many editions preserve the Heinsius–Burman vulgate too faithfully or misread variants in manuscript evidence.
and in his notes he gives many of its readings, pointing out where it confirmed suggestions of Heinsius and Burman. However, his text is simply reprinted from Burman's variorum edition. W. E. Weber's text of *Ex Ponto* IV in his 1833 _Corpus Poetarum Latinorum_ is in effect a reprint of the Heinsius-Burman vulgate, except that at viii 59 he prints the manuscripts' incorrect accusative form *Gigantes* (Heinsius *Giga…
The commentary argues that Ovid’s addressee cannot be Severus directly in this line and that earlier thoughts are being recalled, using quotation marks accordingly.
Ovid cannot have addressed these words in the first instance directly to Severus, but must here be recollecting his earlier thoughts. I have therefore placed the line in quotation marks. =15. NEC TAMEN.= 'This was the principal reason; a second reason, however, was that ...' =15. INGENIVM= = 'poetic talent', as often. Compare viii 66, xvi 2, *Tr* III vii 47, *EP* II ii 103, *EP* II v 21 (quoted at 20 _uena pauperio…
The commentator weighs whether lines 113–116 about the Pontic “earth” repeated twice are an interpolation, and discusses readings around “ora/ara,” “longa,” the pronoun “is,” and names and offices like “praeses” in Ovid’s poem.
=113-14.= Williams suggested deleting this distich: 'The distance between *Tota* and *Pontica terra*, the use of *licet*=if, and *Pontica terra* immediately followed by *Pontica tellus*, point to an interpolation'. The hyperbaton of *tota ... Pontica terra* seems standard enough. Wheeler translates *licet quaeras* as 'you are free to inquire', which may be right; however, the phrase does indeed seem awkward, and *li…
An index lists topics and manuscript-critical notes for Ovid’s Ex Ponto IV, including philological issues, editors’ methods, and details about the Ex Ponto text’s transmission and intended readership.
Luck, G. edition of 1963, 50-51 manuscripts of *Ex Ponto* IV, 23-34 Antuerpiensis Musei Plantiniani Denucé 68 (*M*), 28-30 fragmentum Guelferbytanum, Cod. Guelf. 13.11 Aug. 4° (*G*), 23-24 Francofurtanus Barth 110 (*F*), 30-31 Hamburgensis scrin. 52 F (*A*), 23 Holkhamicus 322 (*H*), 31 Laurentianus 36 32 (*I*), 32 Lipsiensis bibl. ciu. Rep. I 2° 7 (*L*), 32 Monacensis latinus 384 (*B*), 25-28 Mon…
Epictetus-related notes discuss Hellenistic literary “neglect of form,” corrupt textual readings, Epicurus’ last day in a letter, and Stoic apatheia, plus a warning against overvaluing ratiocination arts.
1. "My friends, fly all culture," is an injunction reported of Epicurus (*Diog. L.* x. 6). However, neglect of form in literary style was a characteristic of philosophic writers of the Hellenistic period, which was by no means confined to the Epicureans. 2. This passage is corrupt. I follow the reading adopted by Schweighaeuser (after Wolf); but it may be noted that Schweighaeuser's translation follows another readi…