Tuesday, February 17, 2015

 

A Well Known Fact?

Alan Cameron, Claudian: Poetry and Propaganda at the Court of Honorius (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970), p. 479:
It is well known that Nonnus contrived to avoid ending even one of his 20,000 odd hexameters with a proparoxytone word.



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