[40] adiuro: etc., cf. Callim. Frag. 35b “σήν τε καρὴν ὤμοσα σόν τε βίον” ; oaths are sworn by that which is dearest, especially, then, by the life or head of the person himself or of his nearest friend. So with especial fitness the lock swears by the head from which it was severed; cf. Verg. A. 4.492 “testor te, germana, tuumque dulce caput” ; Verg. A. 9.300 “per caput hoc iuro per quod pater ante solebat” ; Ov. Trist. 5.4.45 “per caput ipse suum solitus iurare tuumque” ; Plin. Ep. 2.20.6 (of the perjury of Regulus by the head of his son). In direct imitation of Callimachus (l. c.) Catullus uses the accusative with adiuro in this sense, a construction which appears next in the Augustan age; cf. Verg. A. 12.816 “adiuro Stygii caput implacabile fontis” .
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