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. 1911: ... IN CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY Vol. 2, No. 6, pp. 93-150 June 28, 1911 STUDIES IN THE TEXT OF LUCRETIUS BY WILLIAM A. MERRILL. During the last generation a movement in the criticism of Latin authors has been going on with increasing force, which has emphasized the individuality and personal character of the Latinity of the separate writers. Formerly a standard of perfection was set up, and by this standard of normal Latinity or of perfection of technique authors were tested: the roughnesses were smoothed away, the strange grammatical usages were emended out of the text, logical inconsistencies were removed in various ways, and the vocabulary was purged. Hofman Peerlkamp in his criticism of Horace marked the climax of the method. But in the latter half of the nineteenth century the school of the Young Grammarians insisted upon consideration of psychological laws in syntax, with corresponding variation in individual writers; and Woelfflin and others established to a greater degree the personal grammar, so to say, of many authors. No longer may we dismiss an et in the meaning 'also' with a superb "et pro etiam displicet"; no longer may we change presents to imperfects in order that the ideal of the sequence of tenses may be observed. Anyone who has given close attention to the received texts of Latin authors must have noticed the hundreds of emendations made by the humanists which have been accepted by succeeding editors; in many cases without serious thought, because on the surface the change seemed necessary to bring the reading into harmony with standard Latin. And in the pre-Ciceronian authors this is especially noticeable; with them grammar was unsettled, many words had been newly created or were dubious in character; sentence structure had not been standardized, periodology was all but unknown. One need only turn over the pages of such a collection as Bruns' Fontes Iuris to comprchend the difference between the ordinary Latin of common life and the arti...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781154464542
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 22
  • Spine Width: 1 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1154464547
  • Publisher Date: 12 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 59 gr


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