Princes and Poets
Niall Rudd, 4 August 1983
The Augustan Idea in English Literature
by Howard Erskine-Hill.
Arnold, 379 pp., £33.50, May 1983,0 7131 6373 9 Show More
by Howard Erskine-Hill.
Arnold, 379 pp., £33.50, May 1983,
Three Classical Poets: Sappho, Catullus and Juvenal
by Richard Jenkyns.
Duckworth, 242 pp., £24, May 1982,0 7156 1636 6 Show More
by Richard Jenkyns.
Duckworth, 242 pp., £24, May 1982,
“... admit the text is wrong but print it all the same, others affix daggers and hurry on their way. Goold, following suggestions from Maehly and Baehrens, prints: ‘liber uti nuptae poteretur flore nouellae’ (‘that he might be free to enjoy a young wife’s beauty’). Now of course we don’t know that this is right, but at least the line sounds like ... ”