It’s words standing for things, aliquid stat pro aliquo. Surely you need not be reminded of the phallic connotations in modern Italian passero and passera being plausibly retrojected onto Catullus’ passer at 2 and 3, as measured by Martial against passerem Catulli at 11.6.16?
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everything that rises must converge
Date: 2005-09-10 10:41 am (UTC)