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A Note On Semonides of Amorgos

A Note On Semonides of Amorgos MISCELLANEA A NOTE ON SEMONIDES OF AMORGOS Semonides of Amorgos is more famous as a misogynist but he also attacked individual male enemies (enemies in the plural, assuming that the text of the Suda IV. 360.7 and IV. 363.1, quoted by M. L. West, in his admirable Iambi et Elegi Graeci, vol. 2, 96-7, should be retained as it could conceivably be emended to x<xT<x Our only source for the name of any enemy of Semonides is Lucian, Pseudologista 2, but the name is not 'Opo8oLx'L87?(; as given by West, op. cit., 97, following Jacobitz's Teubner and codices deteriores, but the reading of r (Vat. Gr. go) and E (Harl. 5694), the only two reliable witnesses of a tyaditio simplex, and correctly adopted by Harmon, Loeb vol. 5, 374. West however did well to brand his form of the name as "nomine corrupto, nam ne metro quidem convenit". Before discussing Semonides' metre, one has to make the small but almost unavoidable assumption from the Lucianic passage that Semonides introduced his enemy's name into his iambi j just as Archilochus did with Lycambes and Hipponax with Bupalus. The name might just have fitted into the second and third feet, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Mnemosyne Brill

A Note On Semonides of Amorgos

Macleod, Matthew D.
Mnemosyne , Volume 30 (3): 286 – Jan 1, 1977
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© 1977 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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MISCELLANEA A NOTE ON SEMONIDES OF AMORGOS Semonides of Amorgos is more famous as a misogynist but he also attacked individual male enemies (enemies in the plural, assuming that the text of the Suda IV. 360.7 and IV. 363.1, quoted by M. L. West, in his admirable Iambi et Elegi Graeci, vol. 2, 96-7, should be retained as it could conceivably be emended to x<xT<x Our only source for the name of any enemy of Semonides is Lucian, Pseudologista 2, but the name is not 'Opo8oLx'L87?(; as given by West, op. cit., 97, following Jacobitz's Teubner and codices deteriores, but the reading of r (Vat. Gr. go) and E (Harl. 5694), the only two reliable witnesses of a tyaditio simplex, and correctly adopted by Harmon, Loeb vol. 5, 374. West however did well to brand his form of the name as "nomine corrupto, nam ne metro quidem convenit". Before discussing Semonides' metre, one has to make the small but almost unavoidable assumption from the Lucianic passage that Semonides introduced his enemy's name into his iambi j just as Archilochus did with Lycambes and Hipponax with Bupalus. The name might just have fitted into the second and third feet,

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Mnemosyne – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 1977

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