(“Pro hoste hostem, canes pro canibus affer”) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 1875
fragment <artist/> <location/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnpictorial> <citnmythic> <name/> <culture/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnmythic> <citnhistorical> <event/> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnhistorical> <citnautobiographical> <name/> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnautobiographical> <citnscenic> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnscenic> </listcitn> </source> <commentaries> <head>Commentary</head> <section type="intro"> <head>Introduction</head> <p>WMR was the first to publish this fragment of latin. Because of its relation to a savage <xref doc="a.13-1873.raw">poetic epigram</xref> DGR wrote, probably about Buchanan, WMR read it as “intended for a hexameter, but, as any one can see, it will not scan” (see his <xref doc="a.pr5240.f11.rad" workcode="1-1911" from="673">note</xref> in his edition of 1911, where <xref doc="a.pr5240.f11.rad" workcode="40-1875" from="254" to="255">the text</xref> was first published).</p> </section> <section type="texthistcomp"> <head>Textual History: Composition</head> <p>No manuscript of the line is known.</p> </section> <section type="texthistrev"> <head>Textual History: Revision</head> <p/> </section> <section type="prodhist"> <head>Production History</head> <p/> </section> <section type="recepthist"> <head>Reception</head> <p/> </section> <section type="icon"> <head>Iconographic</head> <p/> </section> <section type="printhist"> <head>Printing History</head> <p/> </section> <section type="pictorial"> <head>Pictorial</head> <p/> </section> <section type="historical"> <head>Historical</head> <p/> </section> <section type="literary"> <head>Literary</head> <p/> </section> <section type="translation"> <head>Translation</head> <p/> </section> <section type="autobio"> <head>Autobiographical</head> <p/> </section> <section type="biblio"> <head>Bibliographic</head> <p/> </section> </commentaries> <linenotes> <basis> <xref doc="a.pr5240.f11.rad" workcode="40-1875" from="254" to="255">1911</xref> </basis> <lines n="title"> <gloss>See <xref doc="a.pr5240.f11.rad" workcode="1-1911" from="673">WMR's note (1911).</xref> </gloss> </lines> </linenotes> </profiledesc> <revisiondesc/> </ramheader> <readingtext> <xref doc="a.pr5240.f11.rad" workcode="40-1875" from="254" to="255">1911</xref> </readingtext> <viewingimage/> <wclist> <wc fileid="a.22p-1880.blnb2.rad.xml" anchor="0.1.125" archivetype="rad" type="ms.notebk" image="a.ashley1410.v2.1v-2r.tif"> <title>Small Notebook 2 (British Library) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1871-1879? 0 The Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1911) Dante Gabriel Rossetti William Michael Rossetti 1911 0