The Aegritudo Perdicae, Edited with Translation and Commentary

<p>The text of the <em>Aegritudo Perdicae</em> (a Latin epyllion in 290 hexameters, of uncertain date [perhaps fifth century A.D.] and authorship) depends on one fifteenth-century manuscript whose errors are multitudinous. From its <em>editio princeps</em> in 1877 to the present time, this difficult poem has received three editions and occasional snippets of exegesis, but otherwise little published work.</p> <p>The present dissertation includes a completely reconstituted text and apparatus criticus, with translation and commentary. The author proposes the following emendations: 7. <em>aliisque,</em> 67. <em>et</em>, 126. <em>Oedipoden</em>, 133. <em>discusserat</em>, 231. <em>pe</em><em>ruenitque</em>, 249. <em>sed quae</em> (for the gloss <em>iussisti</em>), and 250. <em>turpis</em>. This is the first translation into any language, and its sole aim is to indicate what the author supposes the meaning to be; thus it serves as part of the commentary, and the commentary is itself all the shorter. This is also the first commentary, and it provides a considerable stock of materials for the elucidation and illustration of the text. Its purpose is to discuss textual problems, to begin a collection of parallels (in vocabulary, phraseology, and themes), and to comment on various points of grammar, style, and metric.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Level thesis:degree_level

Open Access

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies

Year

1970

Author dc:creator

• Hunt, John Mortimer, Jr.

• Classics

Repository record dc:identifier

https://repository.brynmawr.edu/dissertations/116

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:repository.brynmawr.edu:dissertations-1115