3 - ERAT OLIM. Nuovi materiali e contributi per la storia della narrativa greco-latina 3 (2023)

Nuovi argomenti e piste di ricerca sull’origine ravvennate dei racconti su Onorio Scolastico.

Applicazione dei criteri di analisi della narratologia all’epillio noto come Aegritudo Perdicae.

It is proposed to expunge the concluding sentence of the proem of Longus’ novel.

Ellipsis of ut in front of a subjunctive introduced by verba hortandi, imperandi etc., is usual in Latin at all times and actually very frequent in simple syntactic structures. However, this standard feature cannot be taken for granted within more complex constructions. On closer inspection, the position of the regent verb and the subordinate subjunctive matters too. The article presents as case studies some passages from Apuleius’ Metamorphoses in which the transmitted text is usually defended by editors and commentators, but requires, in my opinion, an intervention in the text. In both cases, the emendation makes the phrase very clear, restores a perfect balance between the members of the sentence and is paleographically.