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Some recent experiments in Propertian criticism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2013

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Ex Propertio semper aliquid novi. It is with novelties, to speak relatively, that I am concerned; but first a glance around and backwards.

If one wishes to separate Propertius' editors into conservative sheep and radical goats, it is tempting to take as a criterion their attitude towards the problem of (alleged) disorder of verses in his MSS.—the Properzproblem as some call it κατ'ἐξοχήν——which arises chiefly, though not exclusively, in his second book. An ‘unvereinbare Divergenz’ is held by Ulrich Knoche to divide the troop of critics who have in general adhered to the verse order of the MSS. from those others, Housman, Postgate, and Richmond among them, who have tended to deal with the vulgate as Omar would have dealt with the universe—first shattering to bits and then remoulding nearer each to his own heart's desire; a practice inaugurated by Scaliger during the six or seven weeks of convalescence which produced (along with editions of Catullus and Tibullus) the portentously transposed Propertius of 1577.

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Copyright © The Author(s). Published online by Cambridge University Press 1953

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