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Virgil the Partisan by Powell Anton.;

Author:Powell, Anton.; [Powell, Anton.;] , Date: September 20, 2022 ,Views: 71

Virgil the Partisan by Powell Anton.;

Author:Powell, Anton.; [Powell, Anton.;]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical
ISBN: 9781905125937
Publisher: ISD Distribution
Published: 2013-02-22T06:00:00+00:00


and next [to Nisus] his companion Euryalus;

none of the Trojans was more beautiful than he …

unshaven cheeks marking his early manhood.

Two lads united in a single love, into battle they rushed side by side

(9.179–82).

That this single love involved sexual attraction is certain. In an earlier episode involving the pair (5.334), Nisus’ love-object is described by the plural amores, more pointedly sexual in its meaning of ‘partner’ than is the singular amor (cf. below, n. 31). The Servian commentary contains a scandalized reaction to Virgil’s use of the plural here.22 We hear also of Cydon, ‘always in love [amorum, plural] with young men’, whose latest passion (nova gaudia) is the youth Clytius,

flaventem prima lanugine malas



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