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Ancora doctus Lucretius? A proposito di De rerum natura 6.716 e 6.749-755
Abstract
The article aims to explore the relationship between Lucretius and Callimachus by analysing two passages from De rerum natura 6. In the first one (l. 716), Lucretius condemns an etymology supported by Callimachus (ἐτησίαι from αἰτέω) to oblivion, by suggesting the derivation of the same name, etesiae, from ἔτος/annus. In the second one (ll. 749‑55), he alludes to a passage from the Hecale through an Alexandrian footnote inspired by an expression used by Callimachus in his Fifth Hymn.
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