Re: CHAT: Excessive alliteration
| From: | Irina Rempt <ira@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, May 30, 2000, 6:56 |
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On Tue, 30 May 2000, Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:
> À propos of nothing, I just encountered this line from Ennius (Quintus
> Ennius, 239-169? BCE):
>
> O TITE TUTE TATE TIBI TANTA TYRANNE TULISTI
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> The commentary said: "Already early quoted in commentaries on style to
> show the excessive use of alliteration."
I was about to write "it's a good thing that the Romans didn't have
false teeth" when I realized that the Romans *did* have false teeth.
Not all Romans, of course, but senators and such, being old and rich,
would have been most likely to have them.
Irina
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