The Meaning of Corinna's Ϝεροῑα

Classical Quarterly 28 (02):396- (1978)
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Abstract

In the opening verses of P.Oxy. 2370 Corinna declares that she is about to sing lovely to the white-robed ladies of Tanagra. These lines come from the same poem or collection of poems cited by Hephaestion and Antoninus Liberalis as which must be a corruption of the original at the hands of a copyist who read the unfamiliar as . The meaning of eluded the first editor, E. Lobel, who describes it as ‘etymologically mysterious’, and has not been investigated by others, yet one does not have to look very far to find it. or better, the singular can be understood as a formation of the same type as and ) In their verbal forms, the stems of these nouns change to e-grade giving from and from .3 If the analogy is correct, we would expect that would be formed from and a verb from

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Dating Corinna.M. L. West - 1990 - Classical Quarterly 40 (02):553-.
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Corinna.E. Lobel - 1930 - Hermes 65 (3):356-365.

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