Una congettura certa? Una crux in Aegritudo Perdicae 57

The subject-matter of the present contribution is the crux † cera † in AeP 57. A review of a number of critical, textual and conjectural hypotheses already proposed by different scholars was made. It eventually seemed appropriate to consider more carefully the hypothesis cautiously advanced by Zurli in adpar. in his critical edition of the epyllion (L. Zurli Aegritudo Perdicae, Leipzig 1987, reprinted 2001). A reply was then tentatively given, also by means of the intertextual analysis of authors well-known to the anonymous poet of the AeP, to the question whether the proposed certam could be the preferable variant.