This note investigates the repetition of a bilingual pun found first in Vergil’s Aeneid by Lucan and Silius Italicus. It is shown that both authors utilize this pun as a means of intertextuality, and that it leads to an identification between the figures of Juno, Cato, and Hannibal.
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