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Ovid Query
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Wed, 19 Feb 2003 18:46:26 -0700
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Hello

Using a hard copy Ovid concordance I found the reference to the 4 lines of Ovid Pound quotes on page 14 of "Spirit of Romance"

It is the first 4 lines of book three of Amores.

Pound had misspelled 2 words (incaedua and loco) in the first two Latin lines which made a computer concordance search impossible.

Curiously; though he quotes 4 lines of Ovid,  he only translates the first two of those lines and uses 4 lines to translate those two.  The use of 4 lines with the last line of each pair heavily indented creates a caesura which is reminiscent of Golding's fourteeners.

Rick Seddon
McIntosh, NM

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