Friday, October 25, 2024
Hispid and Uncouth?
John B. Van Sickle, review of Paul Claes, Concatenatio Catulliana: A New Reading of the Carmina (Amsterdam: J.C. Gieben, 2002), in Classical World 99.1 (Autumn, 2005) 86-87 (at 87):
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Finally Claes employs the described structures "to support or to correct the reading of the received text" (131), e.g., 1.9, favoring qualecumque quod <est>, patrona uirgo and ruling out patroni ut ergo (Bergk, Fordyce, Goodwin), which Gould once favored in a talk at Yale, causing Clausen to mutter, "My learned colleague has a penchant for readings that are hispid and uncouth"...Clausen is Wendell Clausen. For Gould read Goold, i.e., G.P. Goold. See his defence of Bergk's conjecture in G.P. Goold, "Catullus 3.16," Phoenix 23.2 (Summer, 1969) 186-203 (at 197-198).
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