10/06/2019

Tyrannis

Wilkinson, L.P. (1945) Horace and his Lyric Poetry. Cambridge University PRess.
Injurioso ne pede proruas
stantem columnam, neu populus frequens
ad arma cessantes, ad arma
concitet imperiumque frangat.
Horácio Odes 1.35.13-16 
'Aux armes, citoyens!' cries the mob, but the moderates, the solid molossus of 'cessantes', hold it back at first, till with a second cry it sweeps them along in a torrent of dactyls. To put a comma before 'cessantes' and not after, as Vollmer does in the Teubner text, destroys the effect.

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