Internal Rhyme in Latin Lyric: Statius <i>Silvae</i> 4.5 and 4.7

Two conjectures touching the use of internal rhyme in the sapphic and alcaic hendecasyllable are offered on the text of Statius’ Silvae, 4.5.33 and 4.7.9, and a new case for D. A. Slater’s emendation of 1.6.96 is made. It is argued that, following the example of Horace, Statius did not admit rhyme between long-voweled syllables in non-attributive or incoordinate groupings at the “main” or “secondary” positions of the sapphic and alcaic, and generally eschewed such rhymes in his phalaecian hendecasyllables.