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Tityos and the Lover

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2018

E. J. Kenney
E. J. Kenney
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Peterhouse, Cambridge
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      Nec Tityon uolucres ineunt Acherunte iacentem
      nec quod sub magno scrutentur pectore quicquam
      perpetuam aetatem possunt reperire profecto.
      quamlibet immani proiectu corporis exstet,
      qui non sola nouem dispessis iugera membris
      obtineat, sed qui terrai totius orbem,
      non tamen aeternum poterit perferre dolorem
      nec praebere cibum proprio de corpore semper.
      sed Tityos nobis hic est, in amore iacentem
      quem uolucres lacerant atque exest anxius angor
      aut alia quauis scindunt cuppedine curae.
      Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, III, 984–94

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Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society (Second Series) , Volume 16 , 1970, pp. 44 - 47
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Copyright © The Author(s). Published online by Cambridge University Press 1970

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page 47 note 1 I am indebted to the members of Professor H. Dörrie's seminar at Münster for helpful criticisms, and in particular to Dr M. Baltes for his salutary scepticism over the interpretation of lacerant.