Non ego te: breve storia di uno stilema patetico

Abstract

By outlining a brief history of a poetic sequence, non ego te, since Plautus up until Ausonius, the author demonstrates that this word order, mainly a hexameter opening, far from being casual or simply ascribable to spoken language, is deliberately employed in passages symptomatically comparable for semantics and atmosphere (touching farewells or panegyrical apostrophes), in order to charge the diction with a strong pathetic nuance.

Keywords

• Poetic diction
• pathos
• apostrophe
• Plautus
• Catullus
• Virgil