Tuesday, October 14, 2014

 

More Examples of Asyndeton Filling Hexameters

Ausonius 14.20.31:
vitree, glauce, profunde, sonore, inlimis, opace
Latin Anthology 21.59:
thynnus, salpa, lagos, lupus, ostrea, sepia, mullus
Latin Anthology 21.107-109:
remus, cumba, fretum, gurges, notus, ancora, lembus,
(b)arca, amus, pumex, conchae, vada, litus, harena,
co(n)tus, saeta, salum, calamus, †notae†, retia, suber
Latin Anthology 21.176-177:
vilis, inops, scaevus, turpis, temerarius, ardens,
perditus, abiectus, maledictus, sordidus, amens
Latin Anthology 21.269:
aurum, templa, nefas, titulos, epigrammata, munus
Latin Anthology 83.124:
inprobe, dure, nocens, crudelis, perfide, fallax
On the asyndeton-filling hexameters in Latin Anthology 21 see E. Courtney, "Some Poems of the Latin Anthology," Classical Philology 79 (1984) 309-312 (at 310).

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