[denydenydeny]

Let me get this straight. You're defending substandard English at the same time that you're calling ME ignorant?

I don't understand your "underlying rhetorical tradition" argument. A dangling modifier is simply an illiteracy in modern English usage.

It really doesn't matter how Ovid used to phrase it because--news flash--HE WASN"T WRITING IN ENGLISH. I write English.

[AndyJackson]

It is not substandard English and you just proved your abject ignorance. It is not a “dangling modifier.”