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Catullus 61.90–6
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 February 2009
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As the majority of the editors read the text of Catullus 61.90–6, it contains a couple of emendations, among which the most significant is the addition of the line prodeas nova nupta after v.90 in order to complete the strophe.
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1 This refrain cannot be supplied at the end of str.16, because it would introduce a second person between the transmitted third persons adest and flet.
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7 Cf. Fedeli ad loc.:‘ The words si videtur (videbitur) are actually found, besides Plautus (Capt. 218), in polite expressions of some of Cicero's correspondents… and in a letter from Fronto to Marcus Aurelius (Epist. 84.6 van den Hout).’Google Scholar
8 I cite from the 1680 Utrecht Variorum edition.
9 Tarrant, R. J., TAPhA 117 (1987), 295: ‘… its distinctive mark is a desire to prolong, to elaborate or even to surpass the text which inspires it.’Google Scholar
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11 This is, of course, only a welcome additional result of the deletion, and not a point upon which the argumentation can be based.