_ Corinna, who
five times defeated Pindar at Thebes.
five times defeated Pindar at Thebes.
John Donne
A VALEDICTION: OF THE BOOKE.
l. 3. _Esloygne. _ Chambers alters to 'eloign', but Donne's is a good
English form.
From worldly care himself he did esloyne.
Spenser, _F. Q. _ I. iv. 20.
The two forms seem to have run parallel from the outset, but that with
's' disappears after the seventeenth century.
PAGE =30=, l. 7. _Her who from Pindar could allure.
_ Corinna, who
five times defeated Pindar at Thebes. Aelian, _Var. Hist. _ xiii. 25,
referred to by Professor Norton. He quotes also from Pausanias, ix.
22.
l. 8. _And her, through whose help Lucan is not lame. _ His wife, Polla
Argentaria, who 'assisted her husband in correcting the three first
books of his _Pharsalia_'. Lempriere. The source of this tradition
I cannot discover. The only reference indicated by Schanz is to
Apollinaris Sidonius (Epist. 2, 10, 6, p. 46), who includes her among
a list of women who aided and inspired their husbands: 'saepe versum
.
l. 3. _Esloygne. _ Chambers alters to 'eloign', but Donne's is a good
English form.
From worldly care himself he did esloyne.
Spenser, _F. Q. _ I. iv. 20.
The two forms seem to have run parallel from the outset, but that with
's' disappears after the seventeenth century.
PAGE =30=, l. 7. _Her who from Pindar could allure.
_ Corinna, who
five times defeated Pindar at Thebes. Aelian, _Var. Hist. _ xiii. 25,
referred to by Professor Norton. He quotes also from Pausanias, ix.
22.
l. 8. _And her, through whose help Lucan is not lame. _ His wife, Polla
Argentaria, who 'assisted her husband in correcting the three first
books of his _Pharsalia_'. Lempriere. The source of this tradition
I cannot discover. The only reference indicated by Schanz is to
Apollinaris Sidonius (Epist. 2, 10, 6, p. 46), who includes her among
a list of women who aided and inspired their husbands: 'saepe versum
.
