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531 context, however, and in the light of libero in line 1, it seems appropriate to take deliberata as if it were deL i b e r ata and meant 'sobered Up'8). When we consider the ring-composition by stanzas that has been detected in this poem9), some may find it significant that libero and deliberata are, respec- tively, the last word of the first line of the first stanza, and the first word of the first line of the last stanza. TUSCALOOSA, University of Alabama MICHAEL HENDRY 1) H. Jacobson, Horace, Carm. 1.37.26, Mnemosyne 43 (1990), 449. 2) F. C. Mench, Jr., The Ambiguity of the Similes and of Fatale Monstrum in Horace, Ode, I, 37, AJPh 93 (1972), 314-23, at 319 note 18. 3) Jacobson adds Lucretius 5.33, which describes as asper the serpent which guards the apples of the Hesperides. 4) Details in the commentaries of Thomas and Mynors on Georgics 3.414-39. 5) On the other hand, Horace should perhaps have known not to trust the scien- tific information found in didactic poems, particularly since he could see Vergil boldly mixing the features of aspis and chersydrus for poetic purposes. Cicero knew that didactic poets are
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Published: Jan 1, 1992
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