Hermann’s bridge in Vergil’s Bucolics
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https://doi.org/10.23808/rel.v10i0.87836Keywords:
trochaic word-end ; Hermann’s bridge ; synaphy.Abstract
The trochaic division within the fourth dactyl constitutes a violation of the Hermann law if one sticks to the criteria of the Hellenistic metrics. The Latin poets and particulary Virgil in the “Bucolics” maintained the ban but no so strictly. Virgil was able to find ways to restore the synaphy where a word-end interrupted it from a prosodic point of view. Like bucolic punctuation it seems that the violations of the Hermann law are a mark of rusticity which is specific to Roman bucolic poetry.Downloads
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2010-12-28
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Foucher, A. (2010) “Hermann’s bridge in Vergil’s Bucolics”, Revista de Estudios Latinos, 10, pp. 83–104. doi: 10.23808/rel.v10i0.87836.
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