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Textual Notes on Lucan VIII. and Seneca Dialogi

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

J. P. Postgate
Affiliation:
University of Liverpool

Extract

So in this outburst of Cornelia should line 104 be punctuated. For the poenas crudelis compare VII. 431 ‘quod semper saeuas debet tibi Parthia poenas’ and Verg. A. 6. 501 quis tam crudelis optauit sumere poenas? whence, or from ib. 585, ‘uidi et crudelis dantem Salmonea poenas’ we may suppose Lucan derived it. The feeble vulgate punctuation which puts the comma after crudelis, supposed to be vocative, well exemplifies the mischievous influence of propinquity.—I now find the correct punctuation in W. E. Weber's Corpus, but with the needless alteration of crudel e s.

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Copyright © The Classical Association 1915

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