(“Pro hoste hostem, canes pro canibus affer”)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

General Description

Date: 1875
Genre: fragment

Annotations

Editorial glosses and textual notes are available in a pop-up window. Line numbering reflects the structure of the 1911.

Scholarly Commentary

Introduction

WMR was the first to publish this fragment of latin. Because of its relation to a savage poetic epigram DGR wrote, probably about Buchanan, WMR read it as “intended for a hexameter, but, as any one can see, it will not scan” (see his note in his edition of 1911, where the text was first published).

Textual History: Composition

No manuscript of the line is known.

Electronic Archive Edition: 1
Source File: 40-1875.raw.xml