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- Fer and -Ger Their Extraordinary Preponderance Among Compounds in Roman Poetry

- Fer and -Ger Their Extraordinary Preponderance Among Compounds in Roman Poetry - FER AND -GER THEIR EXTRAORDINARY PREPONDERANCE AMONG COMPOUNDS IN ROMAN POETRY BY J. C. ARENS . Cordier 1) discussing poetic laniger refers to prosaic ep[.ocp6poc 2). This reference is typical of the approach of most students towards the compounds in -fer and -ger. Starting from the formal equivalence of -fer and -epopee, they tacitly imply a total equivalence. Their recipe in dealing with compounds in -fer would seem to run as follows: on meeting a -ler compound translate its first component into its literal Greek equivalent, add to this check up the findings of this compound in the Greek authors, and you are bound to have traced the Latin compound to its fountainhead. Is not Latin poetry mod- elled upon Greek poetry? Are not the Latin poets, docti sermones utriusque linguae, steeped in Greek literature? We seem entitled, therefore, to put the compounds in -fer and the compounds in -popoq on a level. If we confine ourselves to a partial, to a formal equalization: summum ius; but if we imply a total, a functional as well as a formal equalization: summa iniuria. Cum duo faciunt idem, lion est idem. First let us inquire into the frequency of the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Mnemosyne Brill

- Fer and -Ger Their Extraordinary Preponderance Among Compounds in Roman Poetry

Arens, J.C.
Mnemosyne , Volume 3 (1): 22 – Jan 1, 1950
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- FER AND -GER THEIR EXTRAORDINARY PREPONDERANCE AMONG COMPOUNDS IN ROMAN POETRY BY J. C. ARENS . Cordier 1) discussing poetic laniger refers to prosaic ep[.ocp6poc 2). This reference is typical of the approach of most students towards the compounds in -fer and -ger. Starting from the formal equivalence of -fer and -epopee, they tacitly imply a total equivalence. Their recipe in dealing with compounds in -fer would seem to run as follows: on meeting a -ler compound translate its first component into its literal Greek equivalent, add to this check up the findings of this compound in the Greek authors, and you are bound to have traced the Latin compound to its fountainhead. Is not Latin poetry mod- elled upon Greek poetry? Are not the Latin poets, docti sermones utriusque linguae, steeped in Greek literature? We seem entitled, therefore, to put the compounds in -fer and the compounds in -popoq on a level. If we confine ourselves to a partial, to a formal equalization: summum ius; but if we imply a total, a functional as well as a formal equalization: summa iniuria. Cum duo faciunt idem, lion est idem. First let us inquire into the frequency of the

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