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Trimalchio's Zodiac Dish (Petronius, SAT. 35. 1–5)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

K. F. C. Rose†  and
J. P. Sullivan
K. F. C. Rose†
Affiliation:
University of Texas
J. P. Sullivan
Affiliation:
University of Texas
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(1) laudationem ferculum est insecutum plane non pro expectatione magnum: novitas tamen omnium convertit oculos. (2) rotundum enim repositoriurr duodecim habebat signa in orbe disposita, super quae proprium convenien. temque materiae structor imposuerat cibum: (3) super arietem cicer arietinum, super taurum bubulae frustum, super geminos testiculos ac rienes, supei cancrum coronam, super leonem ficum Africanam, super virginem steriliculam (4) super libram stateram in cuius altera parte scriblita erat, in altera placenta super scorpionem † pisciculum marinum, super sagittarium oclopetam, supei capricornum locustam marinam,† super pisces duos mullos. (5) in medio autem caespes cum herbis excisus favum sustinebat.

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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , May 1968 , pp. 180 - 184
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1968

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page 180 note 1 The best discussion is that of Gaselee, S., A Collotype Reproduction of... the Codex Traguriensis (Cambridge, 1915) , pp. 17–18.Google Scholar More conservative, de Vreese, J. G. W. M., Petron 39 u. die Astrologie (Amsterdam, 1927), especially pp. 82–83.Google Scholar

page 180 note 2 Even Konrad Müller's brilliant editions (Munich, 1961 and 1965) here exhibit a pointless text and an inadequate apparatus.

page 180 note 3 For an earlier (and simpler) astrological dish, see Ath. 2. 60 A.

page 181 note 2 Evidence in R.-E. 7. 721.

page 182 note 1 See Heraus, W., Kleine Schriften (Heidelberg, 1937), pp. 98–99, 190 n. 2Google Scholar; Bücheler, F., Petronii Saturae (Berlin, 1862), p. 38.Google Scholar

page 182 note 2 Lehmann, H., Philologus, N.F. xxxiii (1923), 222.Google Scholar

page 182 note 3 e.g. G. Studer (ap. Bücheler, loc. cit.) suggests octopoda, citing Plin. N.H. 9. 84 (loligo etiam volitat... sagittae modo); see also Weihrich, F., ZOEG lx (1909), 385 ff.Google Scholar, 705–6, who suggests octopeda; cf. J. M. Stowasser, ibid. 705.

page 182 note 4 See also Cat. Cod. Astr. Gr. vii. 207Google Scholar, where we are told that Sagittarius produces ; cf. Firm. Mat. 8. 27. 1, 4, 11.

page 182 note 5 e.g. Manil. Astron. 1. 270, 2. 172; see further de Vreese, op. cit., 70 ff.

page 183 note 1 Rackham in his Loeb edition of Pliny e mends caprum to aprum; but this emendation is unnecessary, since so many Latin names for fish were taken directly from the Greek; cf. TLL iii. 306. 58–61.Google Scholar

page 183 note 2 It seems that the scribe of L omitted super scorpionem along with pisciculum marinum, which he saw to be a gloss, although he retained marinam with locustam. The reading in H, capricornum in quo cornua erant, may have arisen from a marginal note on et cornutā, of the form .i. cornua (id est cornua) which could easily have become i <n> <co> cornua, with et then being altered to erant. The hypothesis of a marginal note cornua will help to explain the reading capricornua for capricornum in L.