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  • [1] The example Housman used in the Cambridge Inaugural Lecture is Horace, Odes I, 23, v. 5, where the manuscripts have the arrival of spring (veris) fluttering the leaves, and where Richard Bentley in his famous 1711 edition read vepris (bramble) for veris, and ad ventum (in the wind) for adventus (arrival), because — Bentley said, and Housman concurred — in Latin, arrivals can't flutter anything.

    On 'The Invention of Love': Another Exchange Stoppard, Tom 2000

  • Nonetheless, the Loeb has not promoted vepris to the text, and of the modern editors I have to hand only David West (Oxford University Press, 1995) accepts Bentley; which he does with an extra finesse on the symmetry of the images in vv.

    On 'The Invention of Love': Another Exchange Stoppard, Tom 2000

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