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TIBKYKA TETVVD ZIVWLOWD TWOK WAEKZILA

CONTENTS.

No. XXXV.

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Horatiana. A. E. HOUSMAN

On the Text of the Philocalia of Origen. J. ARMITAGE ROBINSON.
Excerpts from the Verrines in the Harleian мs 2682 in relation to
the Erfurt Ms, and the Regius Parisiensis no. 7744 A. A. C.
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J. H. ONIONS

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On the Pervigilium Veneris, and Tiberianus I. v. 7. H. NETTLE-

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Psalm xlix. 15; 1. 20; lxxx. 7; lxxxv. 14. A. A. Bevan .

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Addendum to Catulliana. J. P. POSTGATE

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Spondees in the Fourth Foot in Homer. ARTHUR PLATT

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Notes on the Text of the Odyssey. ARTHUR Platt

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THE JOURNAL

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PHILOLOGY.

HORATIANA (continued).

Serm. I 2 77-82.

Ne paeniteat te,

desine matronas sectarier, unde laboris.

plus haurire mali est quam ex re decerpere fructus. nec magis huic inter niueos uiridisque lapillos

(sit licet hoc, Cerinthe, tuum) tenerum est femur aut crus rectius; atque etiam melius persaepe togatae.

This reading of the great majority of MSS seems to admit only the punctuation given above: 'sit licet hoc, Cerinthe, tuum' must be a parenthesis. But the relevance or even the meaning of the parenthesis is not discoverable. Reisig and others say 'haec tua res sit, hoc tibi relinquo'; but what is 'hoc' and 'haec res'? Not a predilection for bejewelled matrons: that meaning, as Bentley says and Kiessling the latest editor agrees, 'ex uerbis auctoris nullis tormentis elici nulloque iure subintellegi potest'. A passion for wearing jewellery? of this Bentley says the same, I think with equal justice; but even if the sense be possible it is ludicrously irrelevant: ‘a common woman is as good as a matron who wears jewels, although Journal of Philology. VOL. XVIII.

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