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Propertius 1.1 and Callimachus, Lyrica, Fr.228?1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

J. N. O'sullivan
J. N. O'sullivan
Affiliation:
University of Birmingham
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Professor Cairns has suggested (CQ 68, 1974, 95—7) that the use of modo in Propertius 1.1.11, which has long been seen as problematic, can be understood in terms of some instances of the Greek modo, he says, here means not but , and the modo clause is prior in time to the clause that follows it just as, in his view, a Greek imperfect with can have the force of a pluperfect and refer to a time prior to that of the verb of a following clause.

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Research Article
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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 26 , Issue 1 , May 1976 , pp. 107 - 109
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1976

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2 It seems unlikely that anyone will feel that the material on the Greek imperfect presented in K.-G.1, §383, 3,4, referred to by Professor Cairns (p. 97), provides on its own, divorced from , a convincing basis for his interpretation of the Latin.