Wednesday 14 January 2015

'Tmesis' in Ennius

Skutsch, Annales 14.376-7 (unless prep. super + undas, a 'most unusual' word order):
Labitur uncta carina, uolat super impetus undas  
Verrunt extemplo placidum mare: 

Cic.carm. 22.15 M, Virg.Aen.6.254, and Virg.Ecl.6.81 (= Cir. 51) are cited (p. 542) for comparison.

Skutsch, fragmenta spuria v and vi:
(from Servius on Aeneid 1.412 circum se fudit, also citing Georg.3.381 septem subiecta trioni): saxo cere comminuit brum.'

The B and T scholia to Iliad 17.522 and 542 are mentioned (p. 788), where 'attention is drawn to Anacr.95 D. (80 B.) = 441 PMG.

This second instance is discussed by Palmer (1954: 101), who also cites de me hortatur 'he dissuades me' (= Skutsch 13.371-2
Hannibal audaci cum pectore de me hortatur 
Ne bellum faciam,... ).

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