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- W2321627328 abstract "THE STANDARD INTERPRETATION of this popular epigram of Catullus is that it lampoons a fatuous parvenu who apparently attempts to ape the cultivated diction of the Hellenized Roman aristocracy by inserting aspirations into words where they do not belong.1 C. J. Fordyce (1961: 373) thinks that this is all there is to the joke, but other critics suspect that there is more. A. J. Bell (1915), for example, long ago asked: What is an epigram without a point? and surely the point of an epigram should come at the end of it? So the point of this epigram must be in the word Likewise E. Harrison (1915) noted: The trouble about the poem is that it has all the look of rising to a climax, yet falls miserably flat. As a remedy, he suggests that the last word of the poem contains a bilingual pun on the word xtoviouo (= snowy). He explains: When Arrius crossed [the Ionian], his aspirates blew up a blizzard, and the sea has been snow-swept ever since.2 To date, no one has yet offered any other better gloss. But does really fit the bill as a satisfactory punch line? There are, after all, no hints leading up to it, and a snowy Ionian sea seems far-fetched even as a joke, unless we agree with D. M. Jones (1956) that the jest lies in the dual applicability of the same terms (levis, lenis, asper, spiritus) to both weather and speech. But perhaps there is a more convincing alternative, and one which is better anticipated in the course of the poem. I believe there are clues which point to an entirely different pun on Hionios. First, we notice that Catullus has named his victim. We are not dealing here with just any anonymous Roman cockney, but a particular individual whom" @default.
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- W2321627328 title "Catullus 84: In Vino Veritas?" @default.
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