Quis est nam ludus in undis? (Virgil, Eclogue IX 39-43)

• Neil Adkin ^[1]
  1. [1] University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

     University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

     Township of Chapel Hill, Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Acta classica Universitatis Scientiarum Debreceniensis, ISSN 0418-453X, Nº. 51, 2015, págs. 43-58
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The undis-acrostic that has recently been discovered in Eclogue IX 34-38 has proved problematic. The present article argues that the acrostic’s point is the etymology of litus as the place where these “waves” do not “play” (39: ludus), but “strike” (43: feriant for synonymous but exceedingly scarce lidant). This acrostic is accordingly hot-potato politics, since it pertains to the land confiscations round Virgil’s “wave”-begirt Mantua. The poet also provides endorsement in the form of an unidentified onomastic.