Please don't feel bad, James. I'm grateful that you gave it a try.
David, do I understand you correctly that this is just the general
use of "hercle" as an oath, an exclamation, and not a personal reference
to Hercules?
The person who sent me the Persius quotation in Mathias Lincopensis
was trying to help me out with a project I have going on awareness of
classical mythology, specifically myths of Hercules, in Sweden during the
Middle Ages and Renaissance. So I guess this citation by Mathias in his
_Poetria_ is not a good example of such; its interest is purely metrical.
Does anyone have any real examples of Hercules mentioned by early
Scandinavian authors? And can anyone suggest an edition of Mathias of
Linkoeping's _Poetria_ anyway?
Thanks,
Randi Eldevik
On Wed, 29 Apr 1998, David Wilson-Okamura wrote:
> At 10:23 AM 4/29/98 +0500, you wrote:
> > Or is it generally
> >believed that the exclamation "hercule" doesn't refer to Hercules at all?
>
> The existence of the contracted form, "hercle," suggests that this is the
> correct explanation. (As when Iustus Lipsius, a Christian, records that
> Livia was suspected of poisoning Marcellus and adds "Nec hercle immerito!")
>
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