Sunday, November 21, 2004

hooray for horace!

i just came across what garrison labels 'complex poetic anastrophe' in epode 16. horace writes: Etrusca praeter et... . the normal word order? et praeter Etrusca... . and it even includes some metonymy, since Etrusca...litora = Italy (garrison p.195).

wow!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

there should be more people like you Eric. you fill my world with happiness and make it a better place