MASTER NO. 80135-24 MICROFILMED 1991 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES/NEW YORK as part of the "Foundations of Western Civilization Preservation Project Funded by the NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES Reproductions may not be made without permission from Columbia University Library COPYRIGHT STATEMENT The copyright law of the United States — Title 17, United States Code ~ concerns the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. . . Columbia University Library reserves the right to refuse to accept a copy order if, in its judgement, fulfillment of the order would involve violation of the copyright law. AUTHOR: HENDRICKSON, G. TITLE: HORACE'S PROPEMPTI CON TO VIRGIL PLACE: S.L DA TE : 1908 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES PRESERVATION DEPARTMENT Master Negative # BIBLIOGRAPHIC MICROFORM TARGET Original Material as Filmed - Existing Bibliographic Record E3KS/PR0D Books FUL/BIB NYCG91-B56430 Acquisitions NYCG-PT Record 1 + ID:NYCG of - Record added today 91-B56430 RTYP:a ST:p FRN: MS: EL: AD:06-06-91 CC:9668 BLT:am OCF:? CSC:? MOO: SNR: ATC: UD:06-06-91 CP:nyu L:eng INT:? GPC:? BIO:? FIC:? CON:??? PC:r PD:1991/1908 REP:? CPI:? FSI:? ILC:???? MEI:? II:? MMD: OR: POL: DM: RR: COL: EML: GEN: BSE: 040 NNCi^cNNC 100 10 Hendrickson, G. L. 245 10 Horace's Propetnpticon to Viraiirhtmicrof orml M 260 Printed ant the University of Chicago press. {:cl908- 300 100-104 p. LOG ORIG OD 06-06-91 Restrictions on Use: TECHNICAL MICROFORM DATA FILM SIZE:_5£nnjGCL.-^__ REDUCTION RATIO:_j_/_ IMAGE PLACEMENT: /IA.QS) IB IIB ^ _^ DATE FILMED-.JJS/S-L INITIALS__ij_ZL HLMEDBY: RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS. INC WOODBRIDGE. CT Association for information and Image Management 1100 Wayne Avenue, Suite 1100 Silver Spring, Maryland 20910 301/587-8202 Centimeter II 12 3 4 5 6 7 8 iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiliiiiliiiiliiiiliiiiliiiiliiiiliiiiliiiiliiiiliiiiliiii ^ mm 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 mm mmMJmmm^^ Inches 1 1 1 1 1.0 i.i 1.25 16.3 lit u ^ Wiau TTT 2.5 3.2 3.6 4.0 1.4 2.2 2.0 1.8 1.6 prriT I MRNUFPCTURED TO RUM STflNDRRDS BY RPPLIED IMRGE. INC. Preprinted from Thi Classical Journal, Vol. Ill, No. 3, January, i 908 HORACE'S PROPEMPTICON TO VIRGIL G. L. HENDRICKSON PRINTED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS "71 ' ■1. Preprinted from The Classical Journal. Vol. Ill, No. 3. January, i 908 HORACE^S PROPEMPTICON TO VIRGIL - V J f 1 irVv \ '^.. G. L. HENDRICKSON PRINTED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS lii^''" A ■'*^*•^l, 'j- "■'>0^>^>-'." Itrprobable that ^tlrluZZZ the »x«tW^ of the propempticon, Cicero De mv. i. loo (under the treatment J «». Muc^ at eo ^un, liienlisH^ Wi,, «, a parent, filio, ^Z^nti^ JO, THE CLASSICAL JOURNAL The scheme that is here suggested, with its two elements of protest and in the end, favoring prayers, is carried out in all its essentials by Ovid in Amores ii. n, the theme of which is a contemplated voyage of Corinna. It is, in conformity with the erotic style and the author s manner, treated with more emotional vehemence than Horace's ode, but in structure it is closely parallel. It begins with the complaint or o-x€T\«»*r<» *"i '^' «**«^"' "* ""'"'"' '^ *'"^""- HORACE'S PROPEMPTICON TO VIRGIL 103 say with most editors of Horace, that it is merely a diffuse imitation of Horace's ode. A truer statement would be that Statius represents with most fubiess and completeness the varied motives which this form had developed in the earlier practice of poets and in the precepts of the school. He covers therefore with his composition nearly aU the extant examples of the type, and he appears not only as the imita- tor of Horace Od. i. 3, but also of Epod. i and of Ovid Am. ii. „. Of aU these he is in fact the imitator, but also of a larger literature which IS lost to us. His use of c-K(a, Bca/^,,. fi^^ouov. The rhetorical execution of such indictments of fortune tended to become excessive, as in the elegy of Ovid, and with their suggestions of wickedness and forebodings of danger and '-^ath they were Utde calculated to cheer the traveler on ms way. But this is not the point of view from which they must be interpreted: rather as evidences of love and devotion, which cry out upon the nature of things as man has made them. So much for Ovid, and perhaps for others, but Horace's reputation for tactfuhiess can be saved whole, I think, without having recourse to such considerations. If Horace had used explanatory titles he might perhaps have caUed this a dramatic lyric. Its action represents to j^^ THE CLASSICAL JOURNAL us the departing ship, which Horace -P«^f P;^f^^-"P°;';2iTs as a Uving thing, and we shall therefore think of .t most na^Uy a a shiD in motion, not an inanimate hulk tethered to a dock. It is IZ^TJL i^iunction for the safe deUvery of her p^aous height Jch is to be thought of as reaching the -- °^ ^^^e^^s Only then, as the ship fades from sight and >s lost m *^ ^ « ^^^ he rive way to his grief at separation, and utter m reflective sohloquy Ae thoughts on man's audacity and impiety. They correspond, ^ ^ sure,l the conventional conguestio of.*e PropempUcon but en - Ployed ^th how much more of art than m Ovid, or m the Precepts Kenander, and with how much more of the ei*^«. which Pro- f essor Moore missed. t. -r ^„ « : c q mimed bv But this, it wiU be said, is fanciful, good enough ,f ""^'^ ^^^^^ ^^ it. but the sort of thing which is better kept at a safe dasUnc^ ^^ pUlogical interpretation, or at best launched - ^^^^^ *;^J^^ reach L ear of the docile undergraduate, ^ndjo I thought ^sdf until I reverted once more to the conception which I ^av outhned .nrouraeed bv the fact that it was apparently shared by the poet bte ZSaf At aU events it is the conception of the situation which tius nimseii. rxi, au. reserve of Horace S,.,i» ™,e. » f, J-^E^.^LTtS, Z «*a. pic.u- <"", Z'ZJl tegl o ie «. L L 0„ «nds for s.f. 3 '0.2 S'Shi. »d Zeph,™ .!*..» ...oH^ b«». faHes in the distance the imprecations on man s impiety are ^ fi.)? 1 1 midst of them the ship finally vamshes from sight. Fugit ecce vagas ratis acta per undas Paulatim minor et longe servantia vincit Lumina. ,'?«■■ M .■: m '*•*..< I ♦i^'Tl - ' ii !> >'.v .Jfi- ' A, ■■^1 i«J .ri4.^,...-', !