| "It will be of enormous use to those preparing an edition
of the poems, who will find his arguments for and against the textual
readings proposed in it of great value in preparing their own text" |
| John Godwin, Journal of Classics Teaching 15 (2008) |
| "John Trappes-Lomax .... proposes a truly radical approach
to the text of Catullus .... he argues strongly that the text has
suffered interpolation both in ancient times and later" .... "what
makes this work truly novel is that all the suggestions are assembled
and defended according to a coherent understanding of how the text
has been treated by its enthusiastic but incompetent admirers." |
| Donald Hill, Greece & Rome 55 (2008) |
| "This is a learned, acute and thought-provoking book of
an unusual kind" .... "A particular strength is the large
number of excellent but forgotten conjectures that are revived" .... "There
are a striking number of compelling new conjectures .... Almost
everything advocated here will need thought from future editors
before they could decide not to include it in an apparatus" .... "All
in all this is a fundamental contribution to the textual criticism
of Catullus .... asking fundamental questions and regularly producing
persuasive answers" |
| S.J.Heyworth, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2008. |
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