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Ancient Scholarship and Virgil's Use of Republican Latin Poetry. II

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

H. D. Jocelyn
Affiliation:
University of Sydney

Extract

There are signs that a list of parallelisms containing quite lengthy citations of republican works in prose and all kinds of verse, as well as remarks highly critical of Virgil, provided the material of Saturnalia 6. 2, Saturnalia 6. 3, and Saturnalia 6. 1. 55–65.1

Whereas Macrobius transmits the uersus parallelisms practically without comment, the locus parallelisms have a certain amount of discussion clustered at the beginning and at the end. This is for the most part neutral and matter of fact but in 6. 2. 33 the harsh tone of an obtrectator makes itself heard: nee Tullio conpilando, dummodo undique ornamenta sibi conferret, abstinuit. The original list was excerpted very carelessly: in 6. 2. 29 the Virgil citation ought to continue for two more verses; in 6. 2. 7, 9, and 24 the Lucretius citations are likewise defective.

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page 133 note 7 The promise at 6. 5. 1 to illustrate the archaic use of gradiuus is not fulfilled, at least not in our text of the Saturnalia.

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page 136 note 8 Servius Danielis ad G. 1. 375; Servius ad G. 3. 293; Servius Danielis ad A. 1. 198; Servius ad A. 2. 486; ad A. 8. 631; ad A. 10. 104.

page 137 note 1 Servius ad A. 4. 404; A. 9. 163; A. 9. 501; A. 10. 807; A. 12. 552. Cf. Macrobius, Saturnalia 6. 1. 7 quos ab aliis traxit uel ex dimidio sui versus.Google Scholar

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page 138 note 3 Varius was known only as a tragedian and one of the editors of the Aeneid. His Thyestes seems to have survived in at least one manuscript to the eighth century; cf. Housman, A. E., ‘The Thyestes of Varius’, C.Q. xi (1917), 42.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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page 138 note 5 The monograph composed by Q. Octavius Avitus may have contained an account of Virgil's borrowings from Greek as well as from Latin authors but its reported size of eight uolumina remains strikingly large.

page 138 note 6 ad G. 2. 43.

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page 140 note 1 With turn liceat… cernere … certare | aut… circumuolitauit … decerpsit contrast Virgil, , G. 1. 374 ff. aut…fugēre … captauit … circumuolitauit … cecinere … extulit … increpuit and Aratus 943 ff.Google Scholar

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page 143 note 4 Servius Danielis on A. 1. 170, A. 1. 273, A. 4. 9, A. 9. 712, the Verona scholiast on A. 2. 687, and the Paris scholiast on A. 7. 123 make remarks about Naevius' version of the myth similar to those which Varro makes at L.L. 5. 43Google Scholar and L.L. 5. 53Google Scholar and Lactantius repeats from Varro at Diu. inst. 1. 6Google Scholar. 9, and thus might depend on antiquarian literature. Nevertheless it is not out of the question that at one time, before the abbreviators got to work, these scholia resembled rather the present Danieline scholia on A. 2. 797 and A. 3. 10. Strzelecki, L., Cn. Naeuii Belli Punici carminis quae supersunt, p. 39, argues that the reference to Naevius and Ennius in the scholium on A. 1. 273 comes along with the rest of the scholium from the same antiquarian source as Festus 326. 28–330. 18; but makes the other scholia derive from a writer on Virgil's borrowings from earlier literature.Google Scholar

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page 143 note 6 De Vergilio, p. 70.Google Scholar

page 143 note 7 6. 2. 30 et quia longum est numerosos uersus ex utroque transcribere, libros ueteres notabo, ut qui uolet illic legendo aequalitatem locorum conferendo miretur.

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page 144 note 2 This is actually printed by the Harvard editors of Servius. Cf. the remarks of Fraenkel, E. (J.R.S. xxxviii [1948], 139).Google Scholar

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