Saturnian and Greek Hexameter: a structural parallels
The paper deals with the examples of Livius Andronicus translation, in which a saturnian metre inherits the cola structure of its Greek prototype. This correspondence is indicated by the fact that on cola boundaries there are just the same words in both Latin and Greek verses. These words are generally the key words of the sentence. In such cases a body of an inherited colon may undergo more or less strong changes in the translation. It seems probable that Livius deliberately observed cola structures in hexameter verses as well as related enjambement patterns. Thus, Livius could effectively select the segments suitable for rendering in a single saturnian (e.g. bucolic cola). The fragments discussed in this paper are: α 1 = Livius fr. 1 Blansdorf; δ 52-53 = fr. 6; β 317 = fr. 9; γ 110 = fr. 10; δ 557 = fr. 13; ζ 142 = fr. 14; κ 395 = fr. 25.