I’m giving a talk down in Cambridge this evening if anyone is around and interested

Oliver’s 1966 article ‘Apex and Sicilicus’ (AJP 87.2) is the piece of scholarship I know that discusses the Latin apex. I’m sure there is more recent stuff.

I think that is indeed an apex marking length. They are used post 100 BCE, but just really inconsistently, as I understand it

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New issue of Mnemosyne Vol. 78, No. 7 (2025) brill.com/view/journal... @dgb-ancientstudies.bsky.social @jessehill.bsky.social

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Bold text reading: Ennius pinxit, or What a Difference a Letter Makes (Epigr. I V.). Smaller text reading: Jesse Hill | ORCID: 0000-0003-3253-5467 University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland jesse.hill@ed.ac.uk Received March 2024 | Accepted May 2024 | Published online 1 October 2025 A new paragraph reading: Abstract: This article argues that Ennius wrote pinxit not panxit in the pentameter of Epigr. 1 V. Along the way, it draws attention to Ennius’ love of metaphor and shows how, when we read the right verb, the imagery of his epigram becomes both coherent and meaningful.

New open-access piece from me, out today in Mnemosyne. Still riding on Timpanaro's coattails. I'm happy with this one.

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Grazie! ha 18 mesi :)

Out this week, my paper on Timpanaro and Ennius, which argues: we NEED a new edition of the Annales; Timp has already laid that edition's foundation. Read it here: www.academia.edu/127898444/Ti...

Fittingly, I'm rn on Timp's home turf, lecturing in Pisa on Thurs (ecco io e il mio bambino a Lucca)

And there's another -- arguably more obvious -- bilingual pun just four lines before "a te", i.e., "poema feci" at 50.16 (likewise at line-end...). So, yeah, I agree: the poem itself encourages us to look out for wordplay (and for Greek!)

Woah!

Better than a stupid X , that’s for sure

Black and white dog lying on a bench in front of a big window, green foliage outside

Further to my brand

lol

A bowl of pasta

A bow of cacio e pepe

A plate of lasagna

Maybe my dog and pasta

Maybe my Bluesky brand will be my dog

ok, i'm doing it