Horace: Odes IV and Carmen Saeculare (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics) by Horace

Author:Horace
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-06-23T00:00:00+00:00

mos et lex: custom and law, the unwritten and written bonds of society; cf. 3.24.35–6 quid leges sine moribus | uanae proficiunt; trag. inc. fr.117 Ribb., cited by Cic. Att. 2.19.3 si neque leges neque mores cogunt; Serv. ad Aen. 8.316 mos est lex quaedam uiuendi nullo uinculo adstricta, hoc est lex non scripta.

maculosum ‘stained’, ‘tainted’; first of an abstract phenomenon (nefas) here, and not otherwise so used until Tertullian; cf. TLL s.v. maculosus 30.48–57.

23–4 laudantur…culpam: one line for each part of the merism (rhetorical term for two or more components of a familiar phrase, i.e. ‘praise and blame’). The implicit praise and blame of contrasting types of wife finds resonance at Tac. Agr. 6.1–2 uixeruntque mira concordia, per mutuam caritatem et in uicem se anteponendo, nisi quod in bona uxore tanto maior laus, quanto in mala plus culpae est.

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