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A Note on Apuleius, Metamorphoses 4.31*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

S. J. Harrison
Affiliation:
Corpus Christi College, Oxford

Extract

Sic effata et osculis hiantibus filium diu ac pressule saviata proximas oras reflui litoris petit, plantisque roseis vibrantium fluctuum summo rore calcato ecce iam profundi mans sudo resedit vertice, et ipsum quod incipit velle, set statim, quasi pridem praeceperit, non moratur marinum obsequium: adsunt Nerei filiae chorum canentes et Portunus caerulis barbis hispidus et gravis piscoso sinu Salacia et auriga parvulus delphini Palaemon… (Met. 4.31.4ff.)

Type
Shorter Notes
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1991

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References

1 Attempts to defend the transmitted ‘et statim’ (e.g. Augello, G., Studi Apuleiani (Palermo, 1977), pp. 105–6) do not convince.Google Scholar