Adkin, Neil2024-07-222024-07-222022-09-01Acta Classica Universitatis Scientiarum Debreceniensis, Vol. 58 (2022) , 67-1000418-453Xhttps://hdl.handle.net/2437/375880This article argues that gamma-acrostical disce in Horace’s Ode I 18 (ll. 11–15) alludes to the land-confiscatory acrostics recently identified in Virgil’s Eclogues (I 5–8; VI 14–24; IX 34–38). Horace has carefully signposted his acrostical intent. Virgil himself interfaces with this Horatian cryptography by means of other acrostics of his own. The result is an ‘acrostic conversation’.application/pdfacrosticsHoraceVirgildiscefolyóiratcikkOpen AccessActa Classica Universitatis Scientiarum Debreceniensishttps://doi.org/10.22315/ACD/2022/5Acta Classica Universitatis Scientiarum Debreceniensis58Acta Class. Univ. Sci. Debr.2732-3390