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Varia Latina

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Herbert Richards
Affiliation:
Wadham College, Oxford.

Extract

Liv. II. 5. 2: Ager Tarquiniorum qui inter urbem ac Tiberim fuit consecratus Marti Martius deinde campus fuit.

Surely Livy had too nice an ear to finish two clauses close together with fuit. Rather than that he would no doubt have written qui… fuerat, which would indeed have been more regular and proper with the fuit following. But should not the second fuit be fit, a historic present like res integra refertur just before ? The two words are so much alike that it was easy to identify them.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1911

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