caa a22 4500 388041374 CHVBK 20180307125022.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199811 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/300803 doi S0075435800044099 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/300803 Lyne R. O. A. M. Balliol College, Oxford Propertius 2.10 and 11 and the Structure of Books ‘2A' and ‘2B' [Elektronische Daten] [R. O. A. M. Lyne] The manuscripts of Propertius present us with a single, massive ‘Book 2' over thirteen hundred and sixty lines long. Like many before me, I am convinced that this ‘Book 2' is a mistake of transmission and actually preserves the remnants of two ancient books. In this article I identify and discuss the poem which I believe closed the first of the ancient books; for convenience's sake we can call this book ‘Book 2a'. I shall be saying something, too, about the structure and content of both ancient books — of Book 2b as well as Book 2a. It was Lachmann who first made the — to me — irresistible suggestion that our ‘Book 2' is the product of two ancient books. There has been strong support for this view. For example, a succinct case is put forward by Otto Skutsch; and highly convincing and detailed support has been offered in an important recent paper by Heyworth. There are intricacies of evidence to consider (for example, Nonius Marcellus' citation of our 3.21.14), but I shall set these to one side. I shall simply cite two crucial and probably familiar facts, which are in summary as follows. Copyright ©R. O. A. M. Lyne 1998. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies Journal of Roman Studies Cambridge University Press 88(1998-11), 21-36 0075-4358 88<21 1998 88 JRS https://doi.org/10.2307/300803 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/300803 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Lyne R. O. A. M. Balliol College, Oxford NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Roman Studies Cambridge University Press 88(1998-11), 21-36 0075-4358 88<21 1998 88 JRS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge