A translation of the poem Moretum into Portuguese hexameters
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https://doi.org/10.25187/codex.v6i1.12249Keywords:
Appendix Vergiliana, Vergil, Ovid, MoretumAbstract
Recent scholarship on the pseudo-Virgilian Moretum has discussed more than its authorship. Nowadays, it focuses instead on the poem's intertextual relationships with other classical texts. This paper aims to offer a general view of these recent studies, addressing some possible interpretations for the interrelationships between the Moretum and authors such as Vergil and Ovid. It enumerates a few common features of the Appendix Vergiliana poem and Vergil's works and compares other characteristics to a theoxenia scene in Ovid. At the end we present the Latin text, discuss some of its corrupt passages and give a translation of the poem into Portuguese. In this translation, we use the so-called “hexameter in Portuguese” model, which tries to emulate the rhythm of the Latin hexameters through the contrast between stressed and unstressed syllables in Portuguese.References
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