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Ennivs and the Punic Wars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Ethel Mary Steuart
Ethel Mary Steuart
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University College, Cardiff
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Extract

Since the days of Merula it has been regularly assumed by editors and critics of Ennius that, despite the express statement of Cicero to the contrary, the Annales did contain some narrative of the events of the first Punic War. Familiar as the passage in the Brutus is, it must be quoted once again: “Tamen illius quem uatibus et Faunis annumerat Ennius Bellum Punicum quasi Myronis opus delectat. Sit Ennius sane, ut est certe, perfectior: qui, si ilium, ut simulat, contemneret, non omnia bella persequens, primm illud Punicum, acerrimum bellum, reliquisset”.

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Research Article
Information
The Classical Quarterly , Volume 13 , Issue 3-4 , July 1919 , pp. 113 - 117
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1919

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References

page 113 note 1 Q. Ennius, Eine Einleitung in das Studium der römischen Poesie, p. 168.

page 113 note 2 Ennianae poesis Reliquiae, p. c1xxix.

page 113 note 3 In Pauly-Wissowa, s.u. Ennius (col. 2607).

page 113 note 4 Q. Ennio, I. Frammenti degli Annali, p. 61.

page 113 note 5 Ennio, Saggio Critico.

page 114 note 1 I give, following the text and arrangement of Vahlen, those which are referred to the first Punic War by Mueller and Valmaggi as well as by Vahlen himself.

page 115 note 1 This involves a change in the number of the book to which (2) belongs. But numerals are notoriously easy of confusion.

page 116 note 1 This possibility Vahlen admits (though the other editors do not), and quotes this and the similar passage in XXXV. 26 (referring to the war with Antiochus).

page 116 note 2 Life, Ch, XXIV.

page 116 note 3 ‘Nare’ meaning simply to move through or over the water.