Saturday, June 17, 2017

 

Carmen et Error

Ovid, Tristia. Ex Ponto, tr. Arthur Leslie Wheeler (1924; rpt. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1939 = Loeb Classical Library, 151), pp. 70-71 (Tristia 2.207-208; footnote omitted):
perdiderint cum me duo crimina, carmen et error,
    alterius facti culpa silenda mihi...

Though two crimes, a poem and a blunder have brought me ruin, of my fault in the one I must keep silent...
Ovid, Tristia. Ex Ponto, tr. Arthur Leslie Wheeler, 2nd ed. rev. G.P. Goold (1988; "Reprinted with corrections" Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996 = Loeb Classical Library, 151), pp. 70-71 (Tristia 2.207-208; footnote omitted):
perdiderint cum me duo crimina, carmen et error,
    alterius facti culpa silena mihi...

Though two crimes, a poem and a blunder have brought me ruin, of my fault in the one I must keep silent...
Sometime between 1939 and 1996 an error crept in—silena instead of the correct silenda. The Digital Loeb Classical Library has silenda.

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