From: Adrian Pay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 23:19:40 -0000
Has anyone been struck by Horace 1.24 ("quis desiderio sit pudor..."). Who
is Quintilius and why "nulli flebilior quam tibi, Vergili" (Quintilius
turns up in the Ars Poetica and a fragment of Philodemus)
Lines 13-16 seems to be referring to Georgics Book IV - does Horace know
what Vergil's agenda is in Book IV.
The last stanza refers back to Odes 1.10, the hymn to Mercury. Here the
picture is rather grimmer: compare "tu pias laetis animas reponis / sedibus
virgaque levem coerces / aurea turbam" with "quam virga semel horrida...
nigro compulerit Mercurius gregi". Is one supposed to remember that
Augustus is seen as Mercury on earth on Odes 1.2?
Does anyone know what to make of Odes 4.12 (another one addressed to
Vergil); again there seems to be some sort of intertextual play with the
Georgics.
Adrian Pay
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