%0 Journal Article
%T Venus, Varro and the vates: toward the limits of etymologizing interpretation
%A Stephen Hinds
%J Dictynna : Revue de Po¨¦tique Latine
%D 2010
%I Universit¨¦ Lille-3
%X This paper on Roman etymologizing and etymological word-play was orginally conceived in the 1990s as a response to Robert Maltby¡¯s Lexicon of Ancient Latin Etymologies.Section 1 offers a snap-shot of etymological word-play inaction in Augustan elegy; the focus is on plays associatedwith the name of Venus, in Propertius and in the poems of theCorpus Tibullianum associated with Sulpicia. Section 2 turnsfrom the poet to the grammarian, and briefly considers the language used to expound etymologies in Varro¡¯s De Lingua Latina. Section 3 employs readings of Varro and of Ovid to adumbrate larger epistemological issues connected with etymology and etymological word-play in its Roman cultural contexts, and in modern critical practice.
%K etymology
%K etymological word-play
%K Venus
%K Varro
%K De Lingua Latina
%K Propertius
%K Sulpicia
%K Ovid
%U http://dictynna.revues.org/206