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Parallelisms and Coincidences in Lucretius and Ennius, by William A. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PUBLICATIONS IN CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 187-217 Issued March 16, 1926 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS LONDON, ENGLAND In a recent paper,1 attention was called to the fact that some degree of inconcinnity occasionally results from the combination of a subjunctive si-clause with an indicative conclusion, and a few examples of the form si sit . . . . erit were cited in illustration.2 This is a point at which editors sometimes feel difficulty; e.g.: Vergil, Aen. i. 372 ff.: O dea, si prima repetens ab origine pergam On this passage Conington's note is characteristic. He shows that the manuscript authority inclines to the indicative componet, and that this reading is supported by quotation in Macrobius, Priscian, Nonius, and other early writers, as well as by Servius on this line. It is also in favor of componet that the indicative is the more difficult reading, and, therefore, more likely to be tampered with. Yet, in the face of all this evidence, Conington decides for the subjunctive componat on the basis of "what would seem to be the propriety of language." Editors find similar difficulty with the following, which obviously is made on the same last: Sallust, Bell. Iug. 42. 5: Sed de studiis partium et omnis civitatis moribus si singillatim aut pro magnitudine parem disserere, tempus quam res maturius me deseret. 1"The Latin Conditional Sentence," which appears as No. 1 in the present volume of this series. In references to this earlier article the abbreviation L. C. S. is used. L. C. S., pp. 81 ff. The indicative reading in passages like the above should be compared with that in occasional sentences where editors cannot get rid of the offending mood except by drastic emendation; e.g.: Tacitus, Hist. i. 84. 2: Si Vitellio et satellitibus eius eligendi facultas detur, quem nobis animum, quas mentes imprecentur, quid aliud quam seditionem et discordiam optabunt? Cicero, de Leg. Agr. ii. 85: Si iam Campus Martius dividatur et uni cuique vestrum . . . bini pedes adsignentur, tamen promiscue toto quam proprie parva frui parte maletis.3 Aside from passages that seem to involve a rather clearly marked inconcinnity, there are numerous cases of the form si sit. . . . erit which pass without challenge. This is due to ameliorating circumstances that lessen in some degree the effect of inconcinnity, or even remove it altogether. It is the purpose of this paper to seek out and identify some of these circumstances; and it appears that there are at least eight separate categories to be considered: 1. ITERATIVE SENTENCES Everywhere in Latin are found side by side the two following iterative forms: si est. ... est si est erit To the extent that the subjunctive is used merely as a mark of indefiniteness or iteration, it is manifest that there is no more real inconcinnity involved in the use of the form si sit. . . . erit than in the use of si est. . . . erit. From early Latin onward, the subjunctive with indefinite second singular subject is frequently found in iterative si-clauses, and it requires no illustration here. But the extension of the iterative use, as seen in the following examples, deserves special notice: Cicero, Part. Orat. 72: Id fit, si factis verbis aut vetustis aut translatis frequenter utamur. Cicero, de Re P. i. 66: (populus) magistratus et principes, nisi valde lenes et remissi sint et large sibi libertatem ministrent, tyrannos vocat. 3 There is some MS support for malitis. |