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of our civilization, will remain insignificant and inconsequential for its spiritual survival. He may by ignorance
and neglect actually hasten the threatening end.
Let us close with a reference to the title of this article. All too often we have defended the Classics on
the grounds and in the terms the enemy has chosen.
We have feebly asserted that somehow they did seem to
have a practical value. Well, they have none in the
sense in which the anti-classicists understand it. The
Classics may help you to spell some words rightly or to
acquire the Romance languages somewhat more easily,
but that is not their main purpose. Let us cheerfully
confess that they are not useful in the low, utilitarian
sense of the word; neither is art, neither is religion,
neither is philosophy. The Classics are nothing but a
most important, and indeed constituent element of our
civilization. Without them this civilization of ours
would not be what it is and without them it certainly
will not remain what it is or was.
JOHANNES
A.
GAERTNER
LAFAYETTE COLLEGE
USES OF HYPERBATON
IN LATIN POETRY
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the same verb, venit, is used for both ideas. There will
be a third pause after Italiam because fato Profugus is
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op. cit.
II:Le
verbe
(Paris
1938)
93-96.
Marouzeau,
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In these two lines we have also a double vertical agreement of the first and last words. There is another such
arrangementin the lines (2.15.14-16)
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In the other Ovid tells how the transformed lo, on arriving at the Nile, fell on her knees and lifted her
countenanceto the lofty stars (1.729-731):
Quem simulac tetigit, positisque in margine ripae
Procubuit genibus resupinoque ardua collo
Quos potuit solos, tollens ad sidera vultus
'QO
0Q jboVLg TE X,vdXkav
Ev dXES XaLt XalE'OTEVE5 xaXWv.
7tWQOLV
This might be regarded as an accident, since it is characteristic of the Greek relative clause to be enclosed by
its relative pronoun and a postponed antecedent, and
kakos and its various forms and adverb have a predilection for the final position in iambic trimeter.
The most common of all hyperbata, as Quintilian observes, is that in which the attributive is separated from
its substantive by a preposition,as in magna cum celeritate. The agreeing words form a parenthesis. Hence
perhaps derive the numerous triads in which a word is
enclosed by a two-word modifier, as in altae moenia
Roniae or mernoremnIunonis ob iram. Such triads or
near triads should probably be read as if they were one
compoundword. A substantive and its modifiers may be
enclosed in one long and often quite grand movement,as
in the opening verse and a half of Sophocles' Electra:
Q Tofi Cat
T)
A'TFr_
V EO v TQO(qt
'Ayao?,uvovog;aL . . .
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WILLIAMPENN CHARTER
SCHOOL
PHILADELPHIA,
PENNSYLVANIA
portd/porta,
hostis/hostis,
omnms/omnis, manis/lnanus,
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