I'd like to think that exemplarity can function in a similar way, especially if it is allusive rather than ad hoc. Admittedly, it has been 4 or 5 years since I read that book, so I may be attributing to H. ideas of intertextuality that are not his.
Is the Hostius Quadra exemplum (Nat. Quaest. 1.16) ad hoc? I don't think I've seen it elsewhere, though the vita of Horace has a similar story.
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Date: 2010-02-20 08:47 pm (UTC)Is the Hostius Quadra exemplum (Nat. Quaest. 1.16) ad hoc? I don't think I've seen it elsewhere, though the vita of Horace has a similar story.