Vol. 16 No. 3 (1990): XVI - 1990, fascicolo 3
Articoli

Verg. Aen. 2.255 tacitae per amica silentia lunae

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  • Adelmo Barigazzi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/prometheus-15421

Published 2023-11-22

Keywords

  • Vergil,
  • Aeneid II,
  • Angelo Poliziano,
  • Latin poetry

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Abstract

It was Angelo Poliziano who first realized that the alleged inconsistency between lines 255 and 340 of the second book of the Aeneid can be easily explained: the Greeks left Tenedos in a moonless night and arrived to Troy with either half moon or the last quarter of it.

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