Scrinium Classical Antiquity

QUADERNI URBINATI di cultura classica, 1972, N.14. Edizioni dell'Ateneo, Roma, 1972. 137p. Sewn. Small personal library mark and name on free endpaper.A.o.: A. GRIFFITHS: Alcman's 'Partheneion': The morning after the night before (pp.7-31); F. MANIERI: Saffo: appunti di metodologia generale per un approccio psichiatrico (pp.46-65); C. PRATO: Ricerche sul trimetro euripideo: metro e verso (pp.73-117); C. CALAME: Mythologiques de G.S. Kirk: structures et fonctions du mythe (pp.117-136). From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover. € 8.00 (Antiquarian)

AINGER, A.C., and H.G. WINTLE, (eds.), An English-Latin Gradus or Verse Dictionary. John Murray, London, 1930. 12th impr. VI,442p. Cloth. Cover and boards on the edges seriously scratched. Binding tight. Two signatures (D.R. Paul and W.G. Arnott) on free endpaper. (Rare thus).From the Preface: 'Latin verse composition seems to possess two advantages, as an instrument of education, for which it would be difficult to find substitutes. First, it is the proof and the flower of that scholarship which loves the old writers with an unselfish love, and delights to clothe modern thoughts and modern expressions in the dress of ancient metre and rhythm. Secondly, it is an unrivalled form of drill for beginners, teaching them in all cases a good deal about the structure and powers of the Latin tongue, forcing them from the very first to think for themselves, and a power of appreciating the best thoughts of the best men of all ages and countries. (...) Our object was to make our work useful to beginners, and, in consequence, brief and simple. (...) We give without comment or reference (as a rule) words which occurr in Virgil, Ovid, or the lyrical poems of Horace. (...) In the case of rare words and unusual phrases we have given the full reference to the passage where they occurr.' € 75.00 (Antiquarian)

ARISTOPHANES, Cantica. Digessit stropharum popularum appendiculam adiecit O. Schroeder. Teubner, Leipzig, 1930. 2nd corr.ed. 103p. Bound. Small personal library mark and name on free endpaper. Series: Bibliotheca Teubneriana, 1079.From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover. € 14.50 (Antiquarian)

BOLDRINI, S., Gli anapesti di Plauto. Metro e ritmo. Università degli Studi di Urbino, Urbino, 1984. 195p. Sewn. Cover and edges a bit yellowed. Front cover a little bit creased. (Rare). 'The ancient grammarians distinguished anapaestic patterns from other types of pattern in Plautus' comic scripts, but not always without difficulty. (...) Those who tried to indicate the patterns in book texts perhaps found it hard to separate dimeters from tetrameters. Certainly, corruption in our witnesses often conceals what grammarians had decided on more or less rational grounds. During the great age of modern Plautine studies scholars differed widely about where to apply the label 'anapaestic'. (...) Sandro Boldrini, a pupil of Cesare Questa, submitted a dissertation to the University of Urbino in 1968 on 'I versi anapestici di Plauto' and since then has published a series of articles on various aspects of Plautus' anapaests (...). The present volume reprints these articles in an updated form, adds a hithero unpublished essay 'Un semioritmema' (...), a bibliography (...), and two indexes. (...) Much patient and thoughtful research underlies these essays.' (H.D. JOCELYN in The Classical Review (New Series), 1985, pp.264-66). € 42.50 (Antiquarian)

BRAMBACH, W., (ed.), Die Sophokleischen Gesänge. Für den Schulgebrauch metrisch erklärt. Teubner, Leipzig, 1881. 2nd impr. XXII,184p. Sewn. Binding nearly broken. Spine worn. € 22.50 (Antiquarian)

BRAUN, L., Die Cantica des Plautus. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 1970. 210p. Sewn. Upper edge a bit stained. 'Braun is arguing a case about the structure of the cantica, and his analyses are structural analyses offered in support and illustration of his case.(...) Braun's introduction shows clearly that we can detect a variety of recurring patters, and that repetition and symmetry of several kinds form the structural basis of many cantica. (...) Braun's most serious fault is his confidence that he knows where to mark a break in subject-matter. This is a notoriously subjective question, and his observation that other scholars have different views on how to divide up a passage should have led him to be less abusive of his colleagues and more tentative about his own divisions. (...) Braun's grasp of Plautine metrics seems insecure, and his analyses are overconfident; but they are interesting and subtle, and future studies will have to take them into account.' (P.G.McC. BROWN in The Classical Review (New Series), 1973, pp.163-65). From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 25.00 (Antiquarian)

CARRO, V. and E. FLÓREZ, Prosodia et ars metrica latina. Sal terrae, Santander, 1958. 6th ed. 45p. Sewn. Cardboard. Pages a bit yellowed. Signature (Raf Bosteels) and date on half title. € 14.50 (Antiquarian)

D'ANGELO, Rosa Maria, Fra trimetro e senario giambico. Ricerche di metrica greca e latina. Edizioni dell'Ateneo, Roma, 1983. 127p. Sewn. Series: Bibliotheca Athena, N. 25.'Rosa Maria D'Angelo's volume provides a clear account of both ancient and modern discussion of the old Latin verse. D.'A. draws attention to the statistical insignificance of the number of the Attic comic and tragic verses alleged to realise a third or seventh element with a long syllabe (...), argues that the remains of fourth-century tragedy (...) show a technique equally strict, and finds no divergence from Attic comedy, where the matter in question is concerned, in the remains of Sicilian and South Italian drama. It accordingly appears to her idle to seek a germ of the Latin licence in Greek practice. The final chapter of the volume argues that the differences between the Latin 'senarius' and the classical Greek trimeter are merely the product of a the different phonological systems of the two languages, in other words of the greater frequency of long syllabes in Latin discourse.' (H.D. JOCELYN in The Classical Review (New Series), 1985, p.262). From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 17.50 (Antiquarian)

DALE, A.M., Collected Papers. Cambridge University Press, London / New York, 1969. X,307p. Cloth wrps. Some foxing on edges. With signature from Prof. W.G. Arnott on free endpaper. (Rare thus).'The collected papers of the late Miss A.M. Dale (Mrs. T.B.L. Webster) make an extremely valuable publication. At the time of her lamented death in 1967, there was no greater expert on Greek lyric metre, and the metrical items, which amount to twelve of the twenty-five pieces included in the book, would by themselves make it indispensable to any serious student of that subjectSome of these are admirably clear treatments of metrical topics for the general reader, and they by no means exhaust the interest and value of the collection. Five of them have not appeared in print before. (…) We have here also Miss Dale’s Birkbeck College inaugural lecture of 1960 on 'Words, Music and Dance' which draws attention to facts which every reader of Greek lyricshould bear in mind. (…) The book is beautifully produced, and includes a bibliography and indexes (…).' (HUGH LLOYD-JONES in The Classical Review (New Series), 1971, pp.407-409). Some of the papers deal with metre and language; but most are about aspects of Greek drama - staging, choruses and interpretations of particular plays. (Publisher's information). From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 42.50 (Antiquarian)

DANESE, R.M., F. GORI, and C. QUESTA, (eds.), Metrica classica e linguistica. Atti del colloquio Urbino 3-6 ottobre 1988. QuattroVenti, Urbino, 1990.580p. Sewn.A.o.: B. GENTILI: Parola, metro e ritmo nel 'De compositione verborum' di Dionigi di Alicarnasso (pp.9-25); M. CANTILENA: Approccio metrico alle teorie della composizione orale (pp.45-87); E. VINEIS: Ancora sul problema di 'muta cum liquida' (pp.143-195); R. ONIGA: L'apofonia nei composti e l'ipotesi dell' 'intensità iniziale' in latino (pp.195-237); M. BETTINI: La 'correptio iambica' (pp.263-411); C. QUESTA: Modi di 'compensazione' nel verso degli scenici latini arcaici (pp.411-437). From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 37.50 (Antiquarian)