Note 27 — SAPPHO TO PHAON.[1]
Reading edition
"Antra nemusque" are not well rendered by "through lonely plains." Ovid is concise and specific, Pope general. Better rendered by Scrope:
Soon as I rise I haunt the caves and groves.—Bowles.
Reading edition
"Antra nemusque" are not well rendered by "through lonely plains." Ovid is concise and specific, Pope general. Better rendered by Scrope:
Soon as I rise I haunt the caves and groves.—Bowles.