Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: A syllabic acrostic ( de-ca-te , “tenth”) has recently been discovered by Leah Kronenberg at Eclogue 4.9–11. The aim of the present article is to adduce further evidence for the intentionality of this acrostic. The article begins by pointing to corroborative clues in the text encompassed by the acrostic itself. Attention is then drawn to the overlooked deni ‑acrostic in the previous Eclogue (3.55–58). This acrostical deni , for whose intentionality arguments are likewise adduced, evidently serves to corroborate acrostical decate . This deni ‑acrostic is itself confirmed shortly afterwards by decem ( Ecl . 3.71), which is in turn an imitation of Theocritus ( Id . 3.10). This Theocritean text, which contains the word δέκα in ‘line ten’, provides further corroboration of the decate -acrostic, which is likewise centred around ‘line ten’. In particular it is argued that this passage of Theocritus has inspired the noun which decate can be shown to qualify.
DOI: 10.17615/gp4p-ad10
Author: Adkin, Neil
Institution: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Language: English
Topic: Classical Antiquity Studies
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4415939569
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