Vol. 44 No. 1 (2018): XLIV - 2018
Articoli

Un fossile editoriale di età augustea (Aen. 11.243)

Published 2018-07-03

Keywords

  • Virgil,
  • Verrius Flaccus,
  • Servius,
  • Macrobius,
  • synaloephe

Abstract

The apparently unmetrical Diomeden in Aen. 11.243 conceals sophisticated ancient discus­sions on nasalized vowels in synaloephe and helps detecting a unique evidence of a so far un­noticed editorial nota devised by the Augustan Age grammarian Verrius Flaccus in his De orthographia.