Fragmentary Latin Poetry
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During the last two decades, studies on fragmentary Latin poetry have been fostered by the collections of Courtney, Hollis and Blänsdorf, but there is still room for further improvement in editing and discussing these texts. This paper... more
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I argue that the phrase 'haud mollia iussa' at Geo. 3.41 is taken from Gallus' treatment of the Atalanta and Milanion myth, chosen to introduce the subject matter of Georgics 3 - viz. 'Amor'.
In his Historiae adversus paganos Orosius records the episode of the Vestal Minucia who was buried alive in 337 B.C. after committing incestum (hist. 3, 9, 5). In ms. Sangallensis 621 of Orosius the St. Gall monk Ekkehart IV (XI sec.)... more
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In margine alla terza edizione dei Fragmenta poetarum Latinorum * 1. A 13 anni dal rifacimento del Morel 1 , curato dall'ultimo Büchner 2 , Jürgen Blänsdorf 3 , che già ne aveva corretto le bozze dopo la morte del maestro, offre agli... more
I. A caccia di parole. A proposito di Enn. trag. fr. CXVI, 245 Joc. II. Egisto sulla scena romana. Alcuni spunti di riflessione.
The high number of poetic citations contained in the surviving books of Varro’s "De lingua Latina" are relevant not only as mostly unique attestations of latin arcaic poetry, but also for the special place they hold within Varro’s... more
In memoriam for the great Latinist Alfonso Traina
Septimius Serenus’ invocation to Ianus (fr. 23 Bl.) draws inspiration from the episode of Ianus at the beginning of Ovid’s Fasti, but is written in a rare meter of Callimachean origin. In this way Serenus ‘miniaturizes’ both the... more
Catullus 64 revises traditional mythological chronology by making the Argo the first ship; this “correction” strongly influenced subsequent Latin poetry. Varro of Atax, a young contemporary of Catullus, alludes to this temporal... more
BAND 171 2009 DR. RUDOLF HABELT GMBH . BONN 45 PER LA DATAZIONE DEI VERSI DI GALLO DA QASR IBRIM Scopo del presente studio è quello di tentare una ricostruzione e una sintesi delle ipotesi che, nel corso di 30
1 Sulle citazioni poetiche in Cicerone e in particolare nelle Tusculanae disputationes, vd. Degl'Innocenti Pierini 2008a con la bibliografia ivi citata.
Estremo erede, in ordine cronologico, della tradizione antica sul dubius sermo, che risale in ultima analisi a Plinio il Vecchio, il trattato anonimo De nominibus dubiis (VII/VIII sec. d. C., probabilmente composto in Gallia) è costituito... more
In Virgil’s Eclogues the Muses Pierides are always represented as authors of the poems, like in the Gallus papyrus from Qaṣr Ibrîm. Their presence in passages allusive to the verses of the papyrus and the employ of the epithet by Prop. 2,... more
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In this essay I go back on the question concerning the authorship of the fragments of the Annales quoted by Macrobius (Sat. 6, 1, 31; 6, 1, 32; 6, 1, 33; 6, 1, 34; 6, 1, 44; 6, 3, 5; 6, 4, 10) under the name of Furius. I then bring new... more
The paper aims at debating some questions raised by vv. 6-9 ofthe Gallus papyrus from Qasr Ibrirn. Among them, the restoration ofthe text (plakato iudice te seems better at v. 9), the date (45-44 b. C. appears more likely) and the... more
By comparing the adverbial expression paulo post in Cinna fr. 6,2 Bl.2 with some details of Ovid’s account of Myrrha’s story in Metamorphoses, it is possible to state the position of the distich within the lost epyllion. In fr. 13 Bl.2 it... more
E' al Tereus di Sofocle che dobbiamo con ogni probabilità la notevole fortuna nell'ambito tragico dell'efferato mito che segna le sorti di Tereo, Procne, Filomela e del piccolo Iti 1 : un mito connotato fin dal suo apparire sulla scena... more
I look at two examples (Ciris 244, 259; and Ciris 242-3) in the Ciris where it can be established, in my view, that the Ciris-poet has closely adapted the diction of Cinna's Smyrna. In the latter case, I attempt to rebut the accepted view... more
I argue that Myrrha famously blushed in Cinna's Smyrna, this being an important source for Lavinia's blush in Aeneid 12.
In the Tusculanae, we observe the intentional presence of poetic quotations, theatrical in particular: in the present paper, this element is connected with the therapeutic function that poetry performs in the context of a dialogical... more
The article deals with problems connected with the interpretation of fragments transmitted as quotations. An introduction about the types of context and the levels of contextualization specified in communication theory is followed by an... more
'matutinum', as an adverb, should be retained in Cinna Fr. 6 against the emendation 'matutinus'. Cinna refers to Cicero's Aratea, with Cinna's 'matutinum' being an improved translation of Aratus' ὀρθρινὸν (as compared to Cicero's... more
DIRETTORI DARIO MANTOVANI GIANCARLO MAZZOLI (responsabile) SEGRETARI DI REDAZIONE FABIO GASTI -DONATELLA ZORODDU PERIODICITÀ SEMESTRALE
DIRETTORI DARIO MANTOVANI GIANCARLO MAZZOLI (responsabile) SEGRETARI DI REDAZIONE FABIO GASTI -DONATELLA ZORODDU PERIODICITÀ SEMESTRALE
Nel XIX libro delle Origines, parlando dello ‘strophium’, Isidoro cita un frustulo di esametro che attribuisce a Cinna. Gli studiosi lo hanno però generalmente assegnato a Catullo perché suona quasi identico a 64, 65. Si può pensare... more
Abstract: The purpose of this article is twofold. First, on the basis of a re-examination of the sources and with new arguments, it discusses the meaning of a verse-fragment quoted anonymously by Servius ad Aen. 4.638 (Enn. Ann. Dub. Fr.... more
Research Workshop “Editing Ancient Latin Grammarians: Textual and Linguistic Challenges”, Trinity College Dublin, Department of Classics, 11th May