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Lucan, Statius, and Juvenal in the Early Centuries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

H. J. Thomson
H. J. Thomson
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Bangor, North Wales
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Extract

The histories of literature tell us that these three poets were out of favour with scholars during the second and third centuries and the first half of the fourth. Lucan and Statius certainly had a vogue in the first: Suetonius studied Lucan at school (Vita Lucani ‘Poemata eius etiam praelegi memini’), and Statius (Theb. XII. 814–5) can say to his book:

‘Iam te magnanimus dignatur noscere Caesar

Itala iam studio discit memoratque iuuentus.’

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Research Article
Information
The Classical Quarterly , Volume 22 , Issue 1 , January 1928 , pp. 24 - 27
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1928

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References

page 25 note 1 SeeAmir. Journ. Phil. 43, 353; and cf.Mountford, , Quotations from Classical Authors in Medieval Latin glossaries (Longmans, 1925), pp. 127 sqq.Google Scholar, Nos. 250, 253?, 258.

page 26 note 1 ‘Sane sciendum hoc loco errasse Donatum, qui dicit “Edonii” legendum, ut “do” breuis sit, secundum Lucanum qui dicit (I. 675) “Edonis Ogygio decurrit plena Lyaeo:” namque certum est systolen fecisse Lucanum… Statius (cf. Theb. V. 78) et Vergilium et artem secutus ait “tristius Edonas hiemes Hebrumque niualem,” non “Edonias.”’