An author’s ‘mihi paenitet’
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1“On p. XIII of the preface of my collected papers published by De Gruyter in 2024, The Laurel and the Olive (https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110787672/html?lang=en&srsltid=AfmBOoqdlAXsd8N21PlOIJ7Nit5rTy01mg4FqWYfI7hnaBMCWupwW5iN).
2I discuss Callimachus’ Ep. 51 Pf. and write the following:
“Many years ago, in the context of a Groningen Hellenistic Poetry Workshop luncheon, I suggested that this poem might be meant as a quasi-humorous comment on the completion of the Aetia, the Four Graces being the four books of the poem (the Charites as poetry is a term familiar already from Simonides).”
3I realize now with regret that this phrasing may be taken inadvertently to imply that Andrej and Ivana Petrovic’s paper “Stop and Smell the Statues: Callimachus’ Epigram 51 Pf. Reconsidered (Four Times)” published in Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici, No. 51 (2003), pp. 179–208, and arguing this point in detail, was based on my idea. This was never my intention, and I apologize for any distress I have caused.
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Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, « An author’s ‘mihi paenitet’ », Aitia [En ligne], 15 | 2025, mis en ligne le 15 juillet 2025, consulté le 11 mai 2026. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/aitia/13112 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/158k1
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