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:
impiger iracundus inexorabilis acer
Juvenal 3.76:
grammaticus rhetor geometres pictor aliptes
Damasus, Epigrams 18.5 (Anthologiae Latinae Supplementa, Vol. I, p. 25 Ihm):
seditio caedes bellum discordia lites
Id. 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 catenas
Prudentius, Hamartigenia 395:
Ira Superstitio Maeror Discordia Luctus
Id. 397:
Livor Adulterium Dolus Obtrectatio Furtum
Id. 546:
mobile sollicitum velox agitabile acutum
Id. 761:
balnea propolas meritoria templa theatra
Prudentius, Psychomachia 229:
inportunus iners infelix degener amens
Id. 449:
fibula flammeolum strophium diadema monile
Id. 464:
Cura Famis Metus Anxietas Periuria Pallor
Id. 465:
Corruptela Dolus Commenta Insomnia Sordes
Orientius, Commonitorium 1.67:
aurum vestis odor pecudes libamina gemmae
Id. 1.261:
ora color sanguis venae cutis ossa capilli
Id. 2.97:
contemptum pluvias frigus ieiunia rixas
I 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.



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