Abstract

In the present paper I shall investigate how far the employment of the vocative in Apollonius Rhodius'Argonauticaand in Callimachus'Hymnsi–iv complies with the Homeric usage as elucidated by Scott. For Apollonius, the relevant attestations have been listed, but hardly analysed, by Gildersleeve and Miller inA.J.P.xxiv (1903), 197–9; the Callimachean material has never been examined, as far as I know.First of all, however, it will be useful to fill a gap in our knowledge and supplement Scott's data by surveying the use of the vocative in the Homeric Hymns i–v. My survey has led me to the following results:

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