The treatment of muta "cum liquida" in "De rerum natura", "Aeneid" and "Metamorphoses"
Abstract
Despite a few, highly debatable exceptions, according to the data in Latin archaic verse the treatment of muta cum liquida clusters is undoubtedly tautosyllabic. However, in the case of classical poetry the situation has been inexactly or even contradictorily described. This article offers the measure of tautosyllabic and heterosyllabic treatment in De Rerum Natura, Aeneid and Ovid’s Metamorphoses as examples of classical Latin hexameter and analyses the data metrically and linguistically.
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