Infelicium Avium: Reconsidering Passerat's Conjecture at Met. 3.17.4

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This article aims to corroborate Passerat’s emendation infelicium [n]avium to Apul. Met. 3.17.4 by means of a threefold enquiry: firstly, the stylistic and linguistic features of the reading will be explored; secondly, attention will be paid to reconstructing the widespread implementation of birds in goetic practices; thirdly, a palaeographical explanation of the corruption will be proposed by reviewing analogous dittographies of nasal consonants in contiguous words which occur in the Laurentianus Plut. 68.02 (F), the most authoritative MS. preserving the text of the Metamorphoses.

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Authors/Creators:	Costantini, L https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3444-0018
Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information:	© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2016. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Mnemosyne. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy.
Keywords:	Apuleius; Metamorphoses 3.17.4; magic; birds
Dates:	Accepted: 8 April 2016 Published: 2017
Institution:	The University of Leeds
Academic Units:	The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Humanities (Leeds) > Classics (Leeds)
Depositing User:	Symplectic Publications
Date Deposited:	15 Apr 2016 09:25
Last Modified:	01 Jan 2019 01:38
Status:	Published
Publisher:	Brill Academic Publishers
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1163/1568525X-12342264

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Infelicium Avium: Reconsidering Passerat's Conjecture at Met. 3.17.4

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