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[5] plus oculis suis amabat: cf. Catul. 14.1 “plus oculis meis amarem;” and similar expressions, Catul. 82.2 Catul. 82.4 carius oculis; Catul. 104. 2 “carior oculis ” : Shakspeare, Lear 1.1 ““I love you … dearer than eyesight.”” Although the figure in plus oculis amare is not common in Latin, Terence uses twice the same expression ( Ter. Ad. 701 “magis te quam oculos nunc ego amo meos” ; Ter. Ad. 903 “qui te amat plus quam hosce oculos” ), and so it is not altogether due to Menandrian influence.

Catullus. Catullus. E. T. Merrill. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1893.

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