Thursday, August 30, 2018

 

Trifles

Martial 7.78.3 is an example of a hexameter line consisting entirely of nouns in asyndeton:
sumen, aprum, leporem, boletos, ostrea, mullos
For similar hexameter lines in Greek and Latin see:
Also from Martial are these examples of juxtaposition of a singular noun with its own genitive plural:
For similar expressions see:



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