11-07-2009, 06:19 AM
Yup !....and that assumes it is not a 2nd C BC forgery !
However, accepting it for the moment as genuine, we have referred to it before on a previous thread...
An anonymous verse from 'Anthologia Palatina' (Snodgrass thought it could be dated to Archilocus' time - who wrote around 650 BC)
-Book XIV, poem 73: "argeioi linothorekes" "Argives linen-cuirassed"
The poem contains archaisms (or deliberate archaisms) like the genitive in "-oio", and the phrase "linen cuirassed Argives" seems to be a deliberate 'Homeric' phrase and formulaic........
A very dubious piece of evidence it would appear.......
However, accepting it for the moment as genuine, we have referred to it before on a previous thread...
An anonymous verse from 'Anthologia Palatina' (Snodgrass thought it could be dated to Archilocus' time - who wrote around 650 BC)
-Book XIV, poem 73: "argeioi linothorekes" "Argives linen-cuirassed"
The poem contains archaisms (or deliberate archaisms) like the genitive in "-oio", and the phrase "linen cuirassed Argives" seems to be a deliberate 'Homeric' phrase and formulaic........
A very dubious piece of evidence it would appear.......
"dulce et decorum est pro patria mori " - Horace
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff