Horace Epodes 11.15-18: What Shame Got to Do With It?
Holt N. Parker
Or so at least the text seems to be saying. It is one of those passages that almost seem make sense.2 The explanations proffered have sometimes been equally difficult understand. problem lie in fixing meaning pudor. There are two main schools thought, corresponding senses pudor: as Scham feeling shame, a sense embarrassment, or Schande source reason for embarrassment. Recently Mankin suggested read? ing furor instead pudor another possibility (1995, 292). I would like add some arguments this indeed correct reading.
American Journal of Philology