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Luigi Ferrari: Osservazioni su Quinto Smirneo. Pp. 53. Palermo: Luxograph, 1963. Paper, L. 700.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2009

G. Giangrande
Affiliation:
Birkbeck College, University of London

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Short Reviews
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1965

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References

1 Niemeyer, K. A. E., Über die Glekhnisse bei Q. Sm., Prog. Zwickau 18831884:Google Scholar the autoptic nature of Quintus' similes is ofcourse not limited to the ones relating to pastoral–agricultural life: the simile at xi. 399 ff., which Ferrari (p. 8) includes amongst those pertaining to the ‘vita pastorale’ belongs rather to the class ‘natural phenomena’ (in this case earthquakes, cf. Christ–Schmid–Stählin, Gesch. d. griech. Lit. ii. 26, p. 964 n. 7).

2 Wilkins, E. G., ‘A Classification of the Similes in the Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius’, Class. Weekly xiv (1921), pp. 162ff.;Google Scholar ‘A Classification of the Similes in Vergil's Aeneid and Georgics’, Ibid., pp. 170 ff.