Search

This paper focuses on the dating of Major Declamations 8 and 10. Previous scholarship has pointed to a direct relationship between these two speeches, given the striking similarities in terms of language and shared commonplaces; in this paper I take into account a number of further resemblances with other speeches of our collection (DM 4; 18; 19), along with additional linguistic and rhythmic factors. This body of evidence leads to the conclusion that the author of DM 8 drew from DM 10, as well as from other declamations ascribed to Quintilian. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, my objective is to examine the occurrences of notitia and notities in Lucretius' De rerum natura. In particular, I set out to establish whether each and every use of those terms is technical or not. Moreover, in the case of 5, 182 and 5, 1028, first I try to identify Lucretius' polemical target; then, as for the semantics of notitia and notities, i tentatively argue for a remarkable stratification in their use. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Anacr. PMG 353 hints at the occupation of the 'sacred city' (IρOV AσTU) by some dissidents rebelling against the tyrant Peisistratus, who are called μUθιNTαι. It is usually believed that the AσTU is the town of Samos, but this fact, not attested elsewhere, is unlikely. The paper proposes an alternative interpretation, namely that Anacreon could re- fer to what happened to the dissidents after their departure from the Samos, when, as Herodotus (3, 57-58) says, they occupied the urban centre on the island of Siphnos. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In satire 2, 5, Horace reports Ulysses' conversation with Tiresias, laughing at his plan of getting rich again when he returns to Ithaca. This paper highlights the similarity between this scene and the famous anecdote related by Plutarch in the Life of Cato the Elder: in Plutarch's passage, because of Polybius's attempt to intercede with the Senate on behalf of the Greek exiles for a second time, Cato compares him with Ulysses coming back to Polyphemus' cave just to recover his belt and hat. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores Lucan's use of the dicolon abundans. It highlights how Lucan exploits this rhetorical device to increase pathos: in fact, the second colon often gives rise to a climax. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the comedies of Aristophanes, mythological paradigms undergo the usual mechanisms of comic distortion, based on polysemy and linguistic conventions. This paper analyzes the exempla that articulate the two agones of the Clouds, focusing also on the strategy that underlies the choice of relevant events and characters. The comparison with similar exempla in tragedy aims to show that Euripides has already exposed the multiple ironies inherent in the paradeigma as a rhetorical tool. Aristophanes, on the other hand, exploits the paradoxes of dialectics to show that, even if paradigms are the most effective weapon to win the contest, in the economy of the play the epideixeis of both the hetton logos and Pheidippides turn out to be a failure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the text of the lost inscription containing the Priapeum 82 Buech. which was discovered near Padua in the middle of the fifteenth century and is transmitted in Marcanova's two collections, and concludes that it is an authentic work of the late Caesarian or early Augustan age. Working back from the inscribed text, the literary original has been recovered with the correction of a single word, unlike all the other current editions. The enquiry is concerned with the date and place of discovery of the inscription and its subsequent removals, the people involved, and, more generally, the historical and cultural background. Inter alia, the hypothesis is suggested that this inscription is to be associated with another, preserved from the same time and place, which seems plausibly to have belonged to the same monument. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to shed light on the interaction between the comic text of Aristophanes' Birds and the underlying juridical situation. The analysis of lines 1642-1670 shows how the poet managed to obtain certain comic effects by framing Solon's law regarding the inheritance rights of illegitimate children and Pericles' law of citizenship within the fantastic city of Nubicuculia. Lines 30-38 and 761-779 are adduced as vivid evidence for the discontent of the Athenian citizens concerning the illegal introduction of 'false citizens' into the civic body at the time of the Peloponnesian War. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes to emend κασάνδρου to Ἡγησάνδρου and φικούλης to Φιλάλιος in Tz. Sch. in Lyc. 177, 87, 30-88, 12. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper attempts to offer a new interpretation of the apparently 'neutral' epistolary exchange between Jerome and Paulinus of Nola, focusing on Hier. epist. 85 in terms of both content and language. By arguing for a significant uniformity in the use of Origen over the years, the article explores the possibility that the Origenist controversy and Jerome's self-defence are the central issues in a letter normally neglected by scholars. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Through analysis of Ter. An. 606, this paper contributes to the discussion of Terence's approach to his Greek models. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses a line from Ennius' Annales describing the position from which Remus took the auspices at the founding of the city of Rome (74Sk.). It is unmetrical. This paper outlines the scholarly history of the problem and proposes an old conjecture for reconsideration that points to a mythological variant and some possible literary echoes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to trace the history of the manuscript tradition of the Metaphrasis in Theophrastum by the Greek philosopher Priscian of Lydia (6th cent. CE), with a view to constituting a new critical edition of the text. A detailed analysis of the eight extant codices shows that Laur. Plut. 87. 20 is the common ancestor of the others. Nevertheless, Monac gr. 461 should also be given due consideration, since it testifies to Marsilio Ficino's textual emendations, which are also reflected in his Latin translation of the Metaphrasis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper deals with an aspect of the history of the modern translation of the fragments of ancient comedy, namely the reception of Hugo Grotius' first translations in Latin (1626) in Meineke's Fragmenta Comicorum Graecorum (1839-1841); the main focus is on eight cases (including the peculiar one of Pherecr. 283 K.-A., dubium) in which, as an integral part of his exegetical process, Meineke discusses, comments, and where necessary emends Grotius' translations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As the analysis of the Zitierweise of their sources (Charisius and the anonymous De nominibus dubiis) suggests, frgg. 4-5 Funaioli of the grammarian Gaius Melissus could be interpreted as fragments from a literary work, rather than a grammatical treatise. In addition, a comprehensive survey of all the fragments and witnesses to Melissus shows that none can be definitely ascribed to a grammatical work or a commentary. The last section of the paper deals with Melissus' mysterious libelli Ineptiarum, which could have been a collection of poems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes two new conjectures in book VI of Apuleius' Metamorphoses: the emendation certatim for certata along with its transposition after cunctam at 6, 10, 5; and aureo uellere at 6, 1, 5, where F reads auri uecole. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The fourth and final ode of Seneca's Thyestes interprets the sudden disappearance of the sun, caused by the crimes of Atreus, as a sign of cosmic disruption and the return of chaos. Despite extensive critical exegesis, scholars have not paid much attention to the thirtytwo verses (842-874) in which Seneca, with considerable erudition, describes the fall of the constellations one by one. This paper analyses the astronomical section and its specific connections with the aratean tradition in Latin poetry, which have not yet been fully recognised. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to suggest a new reconstruction for the staging of the prologue to Lysistrata. Contrary to received opinion, the entry into the orchestra of a group of non-Athenian women accompanying Lampitò, the Boeotian woman, and the Corinthian woman has nothing to do with the entry of two groups of Athenian women who form the chorus. On this new reconstruction, which is more faithful to the text of the play, several otherwise puzzling details fall into place. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From Ritter (1884) to Winterbottom (1984) the editors of Quintilian's Minor Declamations have tried to emend the theme of decl. 320. This paper presents some new possibilities of emendation suggested by my work on the lemma negotiator at the Thesaurus linguae latinae. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses the exegetical implications of the longstanding acceptance of the incorrect reading ἐς τὸ θεῖον in the context of Thucydides famous eulogy of Nikias (VII.86.5). Included in the editio princeps (Venice 1502), probably on the basis of a conjectural emendation by Aldus Manutius, the sequence ἐς τὸ θεῖον was never challenged until the early nineteenth century and it was often cited, from the Renaissance onwards, to enhance the traditional view of Thucydides as a pious and devout historian. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes new conjectures to resolve two loci vexati in Apuleius' Metamorphoses. These are: 2, 21, 1-2, where F (Laurentianus 68, 2) reads a problematic eminens porrigit; and 3, 2, 5, a passage much disputed among scholars, where F reads in modum eorum quibus and forum eiusque. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article reconsiders the problematic and much discussed lines 11-12 of Callimachus fr. 1 Pfeiffer = 1 Massimilla = 1 Harder (the so called Aetia prologue), where there is an allusion to Mimnermus’ elegiac poetry, with the intention of offering a new textual reconstruction and a new interpretation of the general meaning of the passage. Since G. Bastianini demostrated that it is impossible to read the verbal sequence αἱ κατὰ λεπτόν in the lemma of the scholium Londiniense related to those verses by adding the supplement ῥήσιες (αLἱ κατὰ λεπτόν / ῥήσιες), several new solutions have been proposed. One in particular, advanced by L. Lehnus, seems to be paleographically more credible than the rest: he reads αἱ μεγάλαι in the lemma of the scholion and proposes to incorporate it into Callimachus’ text. Starting from this paleographical basis, but also reconsidering the addition of μεγα above the line in the scholion, this paper suggests to integrate αLἱ μέγα λ[εῖαι... at the end of v. 11 with the word ᾠδαί at the beginning of v. 12 (αLἱ μέγα λ[εῖαι / ᾠδαί μ’...]) alluding to sung performances of the sympotic Mimnermus’ elegies. Indeed, the whole context of lines 11-12 constitutes a complex allusion not only to Mimnermus and his poetry, but also to his heirs at Colophon, Antimachus and Hermesianax, and to their different ways of reappropriating his poetry in later performances. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on two texts about Anaximenes of Lampsacus which have not been published in any of the existing collections of Anaximenes’ fragments and should therefore be classified as new testimonia. In the first part, the author examines Ps.-Max. Loc. comm. 12, 69, as well as further testimonia on Anaximenes’s relationship with Diogenes the Cynic, thus questioning the tradition that Anaximenes was a disciple of Diogenes. In the second part, the author examines Niceph. Basil. Enc. Io. 6, 170-179, as well as further testimonia on Anaximenes as an historian of Alexander. The analysis suggests that Anaximenes stressed two points: 1) he was an eyewitness of Alexander’s conquest of Asia; 2) he wanted to write a work whose literary status was far greater than that of previous works, thus matching the unchallenged greatness of his object, i.e. the deeds of Alexander, the ‘new Achilles’. The analysis also reveals the strong influence of Anaximenes in Arrian’s ‘second preface’ in the Anabasis of Alexander (1, 12). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]