The Strange Absence of Hort- in Lucretius

Classical Quarterly 73 (2):926-928 (2023)
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This note points out and ventures to explain the remarkable absence of both hortus, ‘garden’, and all forms of hortari, ‘urge’, in a poem that seeks to encourage the audience toward the Garden.

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