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Notes on the Text of Ovid, Heroides1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

James Diggle
Affiliation:
Queens' College, Cambridge

Extract

This couplet has escaped critical attention, even though it contains two anomalies. First the combination ut iam has lost its normal meaning ‘even granted that’ (e.g. Ars 1. 346 ut iam fallaris tuta repulsa tua est) and must be split into its two elements and iam translated as though it were tandem. Second, the reflexive adjective is used in a dependent clause to refer to the subject of the main-clause verb: though there is no reason why Ovid should not have used this licence for metrical convenience.

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Copyright © The Classical Association 1967

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