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“L’importante è finire”. Ancora a proposito del riuso di Verg. Aen. 4.415 in Auson. Epigr. 75.8 Green

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From the journal Philologus

Abstract

In the complete quotation of Verg. Aen. 4.415 in Auson. Epigr. 75.8 Green, the participle moritura, originally referring to Dido, takes on the obscene double entendre of “about to orgasm”, matching analogous attestations of this distinctive sense of the verb morior.

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ADDENDUM

Durante la fase di pubblicazione di questo contributo è uscito un nuovo lavoro su Ausonio: Ausone, Épigrammes, Bissula, Spectacle des sept sages, édition, traduction et notes de G. Scafoglio et É. Wolff, Saint-Étienne 2022, che tuttavia non presenta novità di rilevo relativamente al nostro epigramma.

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