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1882
Volume 69, Issue 1
  • ISSN: 0017-0461
  • E-ISSN: 2507-0401

Abstract

Abstract

The nickname ‘Parthenias’ assigned to Virgil in Naples, as Donatus states in his , was variously interpreted by the scholars, as to the poet’s morality, or to his name, or to Parthenope. There are new possibilities of clarifying the appellative thanks to Brown’s discovery of an acrostic in the first book of the . In the context of this acrostic there is a word, (v. 430), which perhaps suggested the nickname.

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