U NIV ERSITY OF VIRGINIA BU L LETIN OF T HE SCH O O L OF L ATIN N O . 6 THE LITERARY SATURNIAN H E S TIC I N R M F I TA I -K T I R A N I T H C O O L CO EL C , OM C , A ND MOD E R N R HY THM PAR T I I N AE VI US AN D THE LATE R I TALI C TR ADI TI ON By TH OM A S /FI I ZH UGH P ro fe ss o r of a tin in tLe niversit of V r n a L U y i g i i UNIV ERSITY of CALIFORNIA AT LOS ANGELES LIBRARY 9 OCTOBE R 1 , 1 10 ANDERSON B ROTHERS UNIVERS ITY OF VIRG INIA C E AR LOTTE S VI LLE . VA . , 1 COPYR IGHT 1 9 1 0 B Y T nomxs FITZHUGH . o o 0 o 0 G TE D con yo s fio AND P R I N B Y S M P WI LLIAM S 8: WILKIN CO ANY E S S AT THE W AV E R LY P R B ALTI MORE BERNARDO KU E BLE R O OTTONI PLAS BE R GI O RUDOLPHO HELMI O VI R GI NI E N S I S TRIP U DI AN s P . S . D 0 I mmortales m o flere ortales si f ret fas , Flerent divae Camenae N aevium poetam I ta ue ost uam O h tradi tus thesauro q p q est rc i , er L Oi ti sunt Romae loqui lingua atina . E m a evii Aulus Gellius I . 2 pigra m N a , 4 . T H E L IT E R AR Y SAT U R N I AN R II PA T . NAEVI US AND THE LATE R ITALIC TRADITION THOM AS FI TZH U GH I The I - a u . talico Keltic S turnian the So rce of Modern Accentual ’ m — e a u o T r r N . he Lite a a r an . W S tu m Rhyth h ve seen in B lletin 5 , y , ' P art I : Limus Andronicus di of , that the tripu e principle the initial ma a G hi and penulti te acute (A) , and fin l grave ( ) stress , w ch is violated ' hm a : A- rhyt ic lly by the sequences G G and G O, continued through out the length and breadth of the Italico-Keltic or West-Indoeuropean and m a di world , fro the twilight dawn of liter ry tra tion to the last breath I - - of talico Keltic speech and culture , to be the basal and ever present a n m law of accent d rhyth . Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit et artes I ntulit agresti L atio : sic horridus ille D efiux it m Saturnius et nu erus , grave virus M u ndi tiae pepul ere ; sed in longum tamem aevom M anserunt hodieque manent vestigia ruris ' Thus the learned cla ss in Rome strove vainly to domesticate the Greek quantitative thesis on terms of perfect equality with the tripudi o ] and o m accentua thesis , therefore s ught freely to ad it the artificial O- -bea verse t , o o A- -A- O G, claudo -a efiect as well as the unrestricted ccentual procatalectic , o o - - A A G . The indi genous sense of the unsophisticated ea r of the Roman masses 6 THE LITERARY SATURNIAN l - i promptly repudi ated this artificia l use of the He lenic verse beat , wh ch was thus brought into n atural a cco rd with the tripudie Finally with the passing of the Italico -Keltic tripudi c accent and the m i m i m m rise of odern id o s , the new nat ons were left with our odern rhyth a c m — of cent odul ated to the Greek verse bea t . L a ian —F m a II . The iterary Types of the S turn . ro the deplor ble wreck of our Livian tradition we succeeded in Part I in securin g a fairly a of a n a hi ma as our exh ustive array S tur i n types , to w ch we y now refer ami a and of n m ex n tion proceeds , thus escape the necessity repeati g exa ples which have al ready been adduced : L " J, JJ E IJ Hi v e/I Virum m i h i C a m e n a i n s e c e versutum ° Part ° — - - - A G A GIA A G llA O -G | A - A -G M e a p u e r a quid v e r b i ex t u o o r e s u p r a fugit ? A A -O I A A - O llA -A- G A- G I A A - G ’ V V JJ ”4 . Neque e n i m te o b l i t u s sum L a e r t i e noster A - A -G A- A I A - G A - A A - O- G A - G I V 0 A r g e n t e o p o l u b r o a u r e o e c l u t r o ° A A - O- GI A - A- G ll A- O- G A - A - G ° L L o A | ll l “. Qua e ha ec daps est? qui f e s t u s d i e s? ' ‘ A - A A - G II A - A - G |A - G L L ). o u. H J, | In P y l u m a d v e n i e n s aut i b i ommentans A - A - G [ A - A —G MA - A - Gl A - A - G NAE VI U S AND THE LATER ITALIC TRADITION 7 l I A . l A ux /v w ] Tum ue m iu ssit r e l i a r e stru is G. q r e o s g pp A - G A - G IA - GII A - A - G A - G L i. m r o f a a a a d v e n i e t t I 1 2 . Qu ndo d i e s que p Morta est , § A - G A - Gl A - A - G II A A A - G A - G - A L A l a n a n V I h a b e a m u s m e n t i o n e m . Atque e s c a s — - A - G A - G I A - A A - O A G I L . L H, A ll -L J w I g i t u r demum U l i x i cor frix it prae p a v o r e — A - G A - G lA -A - GllA - A - G A - A lA G 0 ' 0 0 v w Hv v w r a r a. e m a m m lsos ue o c i s arv ue u i t 1 . L . C e I 8 q q p t r e agnu , § ° A —A - G A - G | A-O - G I A G A - A - G A - G b J. HJ, ehentem omum I 2 o v d . Me carpento v e n i s s e , § A A A - G I A -A - G I A - G A - A - G 0 0 L H i . v w N amqu e nullum p e i u s m a c e r a t humanum ° A G A -G A - G l A - O- G A - A -G o Qu amde m a r e saevom v i r e s cui sunt magnae ' A - G A - G l A - G IIA - G A - G A - G 1 u' I Topper confringent importunae u n d a e ° - - - — - - A G A A G llA - O A G | A G 0 0 ' ’ M e r c u r i u s cumque e O f i l i u s L a t o n a s ' ° t A A G I A G A~ G |I A- O- G I A - A - G 0 . N ex abant m a r u no dorum b o R . ult i n t e se fiex d u i A -A - G A - G lA - A - G llA -G A - A -G A - G THE LITERARY SATURNIAN ' L e, A IIL V W IV V am a o a a d o c u i t S . N d i v M n e t s f i l i ° A A - G A - A - G IIA-O- G| A - G o 0 I n f e r u s a n su erus f u n e r a I 2 6 . T . p t i b i fert d e u s , U l i x e s , § ° A - O - G A A G I A-GHA A - G A - O - G I A -A - G 0 l a w - I L “o I I. m ut f u e r u n t U . Topper f a c i t ho ines p r i u s I A - G A - GI A - G IIA - A - G IA-A - G 1 ) . J. J, II V I a d a e d i s venimus Circae I 2 8 . V . Topper c i t i , § A - G A - GI A A - O - G I A - G I I O o 0 V V Q I A II L A I 4 a a u d i v i aucus a v i s i W .