Sunday, February 24, 2013
Asyndeton Filling Hexameters
In Some Lines in Lucretius, I collected lines "in which the entire hexameter consists of nouns in asyndeton." I've since found a few more examples in other Latin poets. Some of the examples contain adjectives in asyndeton. I allow examples from elegaic verse, where the asyndeton is in the hexameter.
Horace, Ars Poetica 121:
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Horace, Ars Poetica 121:
impiger iracundus inexorabilis acerJuvenal 3.76:
grammaticus rhetor geometres pictor aliptesDamasus, Epigrams 18.5 (Anthologiae Latinae Supplementa, Vol. I, p. 25 Ihm):
seditio caedes bellum discordia litesId. 32.1 (p. 37 Ihm; the variant carnificis, if construed as genitive singular, would exclude this example; the first two words occur in an example from Lucretius, 3.1017):
verbera carnifices flammas tormenta catenasPrudentius, Hamartigenia 395:
Ira Superstitio Maeror Discordia LuctusId. 397:
Livor Adulterium Dolus Obtrectatio FurtumId. 546:
mobile sollicitum velox agitabile acutumId. 761:
balnea propolas meritoria templa theatraPrudentius, Psychomachia 229:
inportunus iners infelix degener amensId. 449:
fibula flammeolum strophium diadema monileId. 464:
Cura Famis Metus Anxietas Periuria PallorId. 465:
Corruptela Dolus Commenta Insomnia SordesOrientius, Commonitorium 1.67:
aurum vestis odor pecudes libamina gemmaeId. 1.261:
ora color sanguis venae cutis ossa capilliId. 2.97:
contemptum pluvias frigus ieiunia rixasI exclude Horace, Epistles 1.1.38 (invidus iracundus iners vinosus amator) because it contains the noun amator alongside adjectives, even though those adjectives are used substantively.