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YOU HAVEN'T READ SAPPHO'S FRAGMENT ON HECTOR & ANDROMACHE'S WEDDING??? 👀👀👀 HOW CAN THAT BE??? 👀👀👀 HELLO READ ITTTT??? 👀👀👀

The figure of voluntary solecism is found in “As for your mother, if her heart tells her to marry, should go back to her father’s house”. For the congruent and non-solecistic alternative would have been to use the correct and nominative case: “Your mother, if she wishes to marry, should go back…” or alternatively “as for your mother, if her heart tells her to marry, send her…” But intelligent Mentes provides his speech with figures in this way for the following reason. Wanting to say “as for your mother, send her” and improvising on the spot he had already uttered “mother” in the accusative case but realized that he would perhaps not persuade Telemachus, who loves his mother, by saying | “send her”, and passed over this verb in silence, since he had changed his mind. This is how cautious Mentes acts, whereas later on reckless and arrogant Antinous will speak admittedly without solecism but nonetheless in an uneducated fashion, failing to conceal the matter when he says “send away your mother!” In that place he will also be answered by this young man who loves his mother: “I cannot drive her | out of the house against her will”.

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