Saturday, October 18, 2014

 

Twelve Gods

Ennius, Annals, Book I, fragment XXXVII (62-63) Vahlen, in Ennianae Poesis Reliquiae, 2nd ed. (Leipzig: B.G. Teubner, 1903), p. 11:
Iuno, Vesta, Minerva, Ceres, Diana, Venus, Mars
Mercurius, Iovis, Neptunus, Vulcanus, Apollo.
This is the earliest example of asyndeton filling hexameters in Latin. Thanks very much to Angelo Mercado for pointing this out to me. I don't have access to Otto Skutsch's edition of Ennius' Annals.

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