The Juvenile Works of Ovid And the Spondaic Period of His Metrical Art
The Juvenile Works of Ovid And the Spondaic Period of His Metrical Art
Robert Somerville Radford
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Thus in the letters of the exile Ovid refers in unmistakable terms to the issuance of the Appendix, when he writes that it was Messalla who first induced him to ven- ture upon the publication of his works. 17 He mentions expressly the epicedion which he had composed upon the death of his patron and which was sung in the forum (Pont. I, 7, 29 fL), but he also refers again and again to poems which he had composed in Messalla's honor in his early youth. Thus he writes that not even the eldest son,... Messalinus, can remember the time when he " first began to venerate Mes- salla " (Pont, n, 3, 79 ff. ). This last statement scarcely applies, I think, to our Panegyric, but can be more fitly referred to an earlier eulogy which we fortunately still possess -I mean Catalepton ix (xi), contained in the Appendix Vergiliana, a poem which celebrates Messalla's triumph over Aquitania, and which was therefore written in the year 27 B. C. Ribbeck, Appendix Vergil. Proleg. 12, and Gesch. D. Rom. Die/it, u, 200, has already, on stylistic and metrical grounds, identified the author of this elegy with ' Lygdamus, ' and both Marx (Pauly-Wissowa, i, 1326, s.
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