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E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus (ed. E. T. Merrill), Poem 45 (search)
u\s fe/retai me/nei ; Ellis quotes Plin. NH 8.54 leonum omnis vis constat in oculis. (= 17-18). The reading seems correct as it stands here, so far as the contrast of sinistra and dextra is concerned, but a satisfactory interpretation of sinistra ut ante is impossible. Sneezing was apparently a good omen, however occurring, and there is no indication that Amor had sneezed before at all, or that he had ever been unpropitious (sinister) toward the lovers. Ut ante may be corrupt, but none of the emendations proposed (see Crit. App.) are at all satisfactory. Bonnet suggests that the difficulty may lie in our lack of detailed knowledge of the interpretation of this omen among the ancients. sternuit adprobationem: sneezing was early regarded as a good omen; cf. Hom. Od. 17.541ff.;