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The Poetic Treatment of atque from Catullus to Juvenal

The Poetic Treatment of atque from Catullus to Juvenal AbstractThe remarkable avoidance of unelided, i.e. preconsonantal, atque in Latin poetry has long been observed, although scholars have either offered no reason for it or but a single, and thereby necessarily inadequate, explanation. My purpose in this paper is twofold: (i) to establish accurate figures, based upon close textual scrutiny and emendation, for the poetic treatment of atque from Catullus to Juvenal; (ii) to draw together multiple interconnected reasons for why the handling of atque was so distinct. After a chronological account of the poetic treatment of the conjunction, both linguistic and stylistic reasons are found to be of great importance, whereas metrical reasons are seen to be of far lesser relevance. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Mnemosyne Brill

The Poetic Treatment of atque from Catullus to Juvenal

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Mnemosyne , Volume 61 (3): 28 – Jan 1, 2008
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Copyright © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0026-7074
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10.1163/156852507X195772
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Abstract

AbstractThe remarkable avoidance of unelided, i.e. preconsonantal, atque in Latin poetry has long been observed, although scholars have either offered no reason for it or but a single, and thereby necessarily inadequate, explanation. My purpose in this paper is twofold: (i) to establish accurate figures, based upon close textual scrutiny and emendation, for the poetic treatment of atque from Catullus to Juvenal; (ii) to draw together multiple interconnected reasons for why the handling of atque was so distinct. After a chronological account of the poetic treatment of the conjunction, both linguistic and stylistic reasons are found to be of great importance, whereas metrical reasons are seen to be of far lesser relevance.

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Mnemosyne – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 2008

Keywords: ATQUE; STYLISTICS; TEXTUAL; LATIN POETRY; METRICAL

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