Ah, I see what you mean. I'm not sure I buy it - I would expect that a Roman writer would talk about Roma if that's what they meant. Although Romulus could be held up as a mythical ancestor figure (as Catullus does with the 'grandsons of Remus' in Poem 58), I would naturally expect the use of Romulus in this fashion to be a cover for some contemporary figure who could (ironically or not) be seen to encapsulate some of the values of Romulus. (I'm also a bit uncomfortable with the addressee in lines 5 and 9 not being included in the addressees of the last two lines, where the piissimi must be Caesar and Pompey.)
But you could be right. And as you say, these are your versions, and you can read the poems how you like for them.
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Date: 2010-09-08 06:18 pm (UTC)But you could be right. And as you say, these are your versions, and you can read the poems how you like for them.