{"title":"Moretvm 45: An Emendation","authors":"Boris Kayachev","doi":"10.1086/721532","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This paper argues that the text of Moretum 45, transuersat durata manu liquidoque coacta (“kneads (?) the dough made firm and dense with his hand and water”), has two problems: first, the asyndetic conjunction with the preceding line is harsh; second, the verb transuersare is otherwise unattested in classical Latin and does not produce a plausible sense here. Both problems are simultaneously solved by writing et uersat: “and keeps turning over the dough as it is being made firm and dense with his hand and water.”","PeriodicalId":46255,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7000,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1086/721532","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"CLASSICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This paper argues that the text of Moretum 45, transuersat durata manu liquidoque coacta (“kneads (?) the dough made firm and dense with his hand and water”), has two problems: first, the asyndetic conjunction with the preceding line is harsh; second, the verb transuersare is otherwise unattested in classical Latin and does not produce a plausible sense here. Both problems are simultaneously solved by writing et uersat: “and keeps turning over the dough as it is being made firm and dense with his hand and water.”
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