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CALLIMACHUS: COMA BERENICES : ORIGINS* by STEVEN JACKSON In the continuing debate on Callimachus’ Coma Berenices (F 110 Pf.) and Catullus’ translation of it ( c. 66 ), 1 ) one of the most con- troversial elements is that of the ritus nuptialis which we nd described in Catullus lines 79-88 but which is missing from the Callimachus P. Oxy. 2258. Was the ritus nuptialis an invention of Catullus, or was it in the original Callimachus which Catullus had before him and translated? The thought of Catullus himself composing an aetion in the Callimachean manner which was not actually in the Cal- limachean original he was basically translating is intriguing, and, surely, far from impossible—a type of virtuoso composition, or conta- minatio . R. Pfei V er (2. XXXVII) thinks that it was Callimachus who added these lines when he inserted the Coma , until then assumed to be an independent elegy, into a second edition of the Aetia . There is also the evidence in P. Oxy. 2258 C of an additional closing dis- tich, not evident in Catullus, which seems to suggest that Callimachus did make some changes to the Coma at this time. Presumably
Mnemosyne – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2001
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