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Notes on Claudian

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Alan Ker
Alan Ker
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Trinity College, Cambridge
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‘Prince, lovelier than the flashing star’, says the Poet Laureate to his Emperor; ‘Leda would rather have produced thee than Castor, Thetis than Achilles; Delos prefers thee to Apollo, Lydia to Bacchus.’ Then follows a passage describing the effect on nature of the Emperor's going out to hunt: ‘the beasts will gladly fall to your spear, the lion will be proud to die at your sacred hand. Venus scorns Adonis returned to life, Diana Hippolytus’.

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Research Article
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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 7 , Issue 3-4 , July 1957 , pp. 151 - 158
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1957

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References

1 The reading hanc tamen (pace Heinsius) is not at all well attested, being found only in one 13th-century manuscript and one early edition.

1 Barthius apparently takes nullis as obj. of deterrebat: ‘nullis deterrebat’, he says, ‘frustra hic haereas’. On the contrary, eo magis haereo.

2 The other examples there are errors.

1 See Bailey, Shackleton, Propertiana, p. 202.Google Scholar

1 See Mythographi Latini, i. 232; ii. 130.Google Scholar