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This paper establishes a new date for the publication of Suetonius’ Illustrious Men through allusions to Suetonius’ Virgil in Pliny, Letters 5.10. These allusions are part of a much wider network of allusions, both within this particular letter and more generally in Pliny’s Book 5, that revolves around the theme of unpublished writings. It is a partial or full publication of the Illustrious Men that probably led to Suetonius’ award of the ius trium liberorum in A.D. 110, and he may now have published all of the Caesars before his dismissal by Hadrian in A.D. 122. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The recent adjustment to Palladas’ dates necessitates a fresh look at an old question: Should Constantinople be considered the proper setting for some of his epigrams? Allusions in a few poems to statuary and to buildings, and one ekphrasis of a coin, suggest not only that he was in Constantinople at some point during his life (as many others have thought), but also that he was there quite close to the time of the city’s foundation. These epigrams yield precious (if also enigmatic) clues to a murky period in the history of the Eastern capital. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Epistles 8.14, one of Pliny’s longest letters, has been widely dismissed as a clumsy combination of two ill-fitting stretches of prose. This article demonstrates a significant chain of allusions in the letter’s opening to Tacitus’ Agricola, as well as to Cicero, Ovid and Seneca; it shows how Pliny prompts such a reading in the surrounding Epistles 8.13 and 8.15; and, through consideration of the diptych form and the theme of slavery, it demonstrates the letter’s pivotal role as centrepiece to Book 8. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article examines the structure and allusion used in Horace's book "Epodes". Roman lyric poet Horace writes in the genre of iambi, and his models are Archilochus and Hipponax. He issues convivial instructions in the first person, and these instructions then merge with moralizing. Issuing instructions, Horace is modeling his voice on that of the symposiarch.