TY - JOUR

T1 - Inscription on a Roman Stylus from London

AU - Keyer, Denis

N1 - Keyer, Denis "Inscription on a Roman Stylus from London", in: Hzperboreus 25:2 (2019) 340-350

PY - 2019

Y1 - 2019

N2 - I interpret the metric inscription on the stylus from the Bloomberg excavations inLondon (Tomlin 2018) as a polymetron that consists of two iambic senarii and an elegiac distich. In acul[eat]um, if this restoration is correct, -ea- must be scanned monosyllabically with synizesis. In lines 2–3 I punctuate before ut andafter rogo, so that the ut clause depends on rogo.In line 4 I restore ut[i], which provides a hexameter: si fortuna daret quo possem largius uti! (si introduces a wish, like utinam). In the word that follows via the third letter must be identified as N (not as V); I suggest to restore either cen[a] (the ablative that is asyndetically coordinated with via) or Cen[i] (the vocative of Cenius). In either case via must be scanned monosyllabically withsynizesis.

AB - I interpret the metric inscription on the stylus from the Bloomberg excavations inLondon (Tomlin 2018) as a polymetron that consists of two iambic senarii and an elegiac distich. In acul[eat]um, if this restoration is correct, -ea- must be scanned monosyllabically with synizesis. In lines 2–3 I punctuate before ut andafter rogo, so that the ut clause depends on rogo.In line 4 I restore ut[i], which provides a hexameter: si fortuna daret quo possem largius uti! (si introduces a wish, like utinam). In the word that follows via the third letter must be identified as N (not as V); I suggest to restore either cen[a] (the ablative that is asyndetically coordinated with via) or Cen[i] (the vocative of Cenius). In either case via must be scanned monosyllabically withsynizesis.

KW - inscription, Latin epigraphy, Roman Britain, stylus

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M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85112019957

VL - 25

SP - 340

EP - 350

JO - Hyperboreus

JF - Hyperboreus

SN - 0949-2615

IS - 2

ER -