Quis est nam ludus in undis? (Virgil, Eclogue IX 39-43)

dc.contributor.authorAdkin, Neil
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-28T11:06:33Z
dc.date.available2021-06-28T11:06:33Z
dc.date.issued2020-07-08
dc.description.abstractThe undis -acrostic that has recently been discovered in Eclogue IX 34-38 has proved problematic. The present article argues that the acrostic’s point is the etymology of litus as the place where these “waves” do not “play” (39: ludus ), but “strike” (43: feriant for synonymous but exceedingly scarce lidant ). This acrostic is accordingly hot-potato politics, since it pertains to the land confiscations round Virgil’s “wave”-begirt Mantua. The poet also provides endorsement in the form of an unidentified onomastic.en
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dc.identifier.citationActa Classica Universitatis Scientiarum Debreceniensis, Vol. 51 (2015) , 43–58
dc.identifier.eissn2732-3390
dc.identifier.issn0418-453X
dc.identifier.jatitleActa Class. Univ. Sci. Debr.
dc.identifier.jtitleActa Classica Universitatis Scientiarum Debreceniensis
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2437/317253en
dc.identifier.volume51
dc.languageen
dc.relationhttps://ojs.lib.unideb.hu/classica/article/view/7839
dc.rights.accessOpen Access
dc.rights.ownerActa Classica Universitatis Scientiarum Debreceniensis
dc.subjectacrosticen
dc.subjectetymologyen
dc.subjectland-confiscationen
dc.subjectlitusen
dc.subjectonomasticen
dc.titleQuis est nam ludus in undis? (Virgil, Eclogue IX 39-43)en
dc.typefolyóiratcikkhu
dc.typearticleen
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