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The Quotations of Republican Drama in Priscian’s Treatise De Metris Fabularum Terentii

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H.D. Jocelyn
H.D. Jocelyn*
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The purpose of this article is to draw attention to an unnoticed feature of the arrangement of Priscian’s treatise De metris fabularum Terentii and to speculate upon the origin of the quotations of republican drama contained in this treatise.

Priscianus of Caesarea in Mauretania taught Latin at Constantinople during the reign of Anastasius (491-518), a period when literary culture was in steep decline throughout the Latin-speaking Western Mediterranean. The mass of the population of Constantinople was probably Greek, at least in language, from the time of the city’s foundation but Constantine intended its public institutions to be Roman, and the emperors of the fifth and sixth centuries, most of whom either came from Latin-speaking communities or had received their principal education in Latin, jealously preserved the formal links with old Roman tradition. The Latin language remained in regular use in the army and the civil service until the time of Justinian. The latter even published his codification of the law in this language, although he issued most of his nouellae in Greek. Latin maintained itself longest on the coinage. Theodosius II made careful provision for the teaching of Latin grammar and rhetoric when he organized a state university in 425. The royal library, which lost 120,000 volumes in the fire of 475, possessed Latin as well as Greek works. At least three noted Latin grammarians, Euanthius, Charisius and Cledonius, taught at Constantinople before Priscian’s time.

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Antichthon , Volume 1 , 1967 , pp. 60 - 69
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61 Gramm. vi 558.7 ff.

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69 Euripides’ opened with very different words (Pap. Mediol. 1) but this play is not necessarily Accius’ model.

70 Menander’s seems to have begun with a monologue of similar content (Theon, Progymn. p. 92.16 = fr. 152 Körte).

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73 Asmonius addressed his work to a ‘Constantius imperator’ (perhaps Constantius III; see Jeep, L., Philologus lxvii [1908], 19).Google Scholar

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75 Aulus Gellius almost certainly consulted the Plocium of Caecilius (ii 23.5 ff., iii 16.4) and at least one tragedy of Pacuvius (xiv 1.34).

76 Our text of Priscian’s quotations is not very good. Priscian’s copyists are doubtless to blame in some cases. They seem to have lost a quotation of the opening verses of the first scene of Heauton timoroumenus at p. 423.9. Priscian’s manuscripts of Ennius, Accius and Turpilius on the other hand could well have been themselves faulty or hard to read. The quotation of the Medea is clearly astray in at least four places. The second Lindia quotation (p. 426.2–4) is hopelessly corrupt. The opening verses of the Argonautae are not quoted and those which are are dislocated; nevertheless in three places a text superior to that of Cicero, Nat.deor. ii 89 is provided (spiritu ~ strepitu; reflat <–> prqfluit; undanti infracto [sic] ~ undantes ueniant freto).

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78 Ap. Charis. p. 273.13 (Barwick).

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86 Lindsay has shown (see work cited above, n.27) that Nonius drew all his quotations of the Medea except that at p. 467.21 from a volume of Accius’ plays. Cf. also Schmidt, P., De Nonii Marcelli auctoribus grammaticis (Leipzig, 1868).Google Scholar

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93 Tragicorum Romanorum fragmenta (Leipzig, 18521, 18712, 18973).

94 In app., Gramm. iii 424.9.

95 Remains of Old Latin, Vol. ii (London, 1936).

96 Scaenicorum Romanorum fragmenta, Vol. i (Munich, 1953).

97 Cf. Aeschylus’ Plautus’ Caecus uel Praedones, Accius’ Stasiastae uel Tropaeum, Aeneadae uel Decius. Priscian is more likely than a scribe to be responsible for the omission.

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