"Sunt lacrimae rerum": an exploration in meaning

• Autores: David Wharton
• Localización: Classical journal, ISSN 0009-8353, Vol. 103, Nº 3, 2008, págs. 259-280
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The half-line at Aeneid 1.462, sunt lacrimae rerum, although one of the most quoted and controversial utterances in Vergil�s poem, has received little scrutiny from the point of view of linguistic semantics and pragmatics. This paper explores the interpretive options in these terms, and argues that their semantic and referential indeterminacy is both intentional and poetically productive, lending it an implicational richness most readers find attractive.