The Poetry of Statius

8 VALÉRY BERLINCOURT success of Barth’s work is largely a consequence of the triumph of Gronovius’ edition. With regard to the c ...

‘IN PONDERE NON MAGNO SATIS PONDEROSAE...’ 9 ad hunc diem in commentariis sepulta jaceant, neque in ullius editionis textu repra ...

10 VALÉRY BERLINCOURT weighing their evidence.^28 He takes great account of their respective merits and, in particular, makes re ...

‘IN PONDERE NON MAGNO SATIS PONDEROSAE...’ 11 This mixture of qualities brought good results. On the other hand, clever as they ...

12 VALÉRY BERLINCOURT may nevertheless be deemed significant, at least as an approximation). Gronovius’ text is much nearer to H ...

‘IN PONDERE NON MAGNO SATIS PONDEROSAE...’ 13 many more would have been necessary to produce a truly good text of the Thebaid; m ...

14 VALÉRY BERLINCOURT tarum ad Thebaida et Achilleida addidi. [...] Nihil exspectabis magni, praesertim ab homine sic districto ...

‘IN PONDERE NON MAGNO SATIS PONDEROSAE...’ 15 course of the printed tradition. Had they come earlier, they might per- haps have ...

16 VALÉRY BERLINCOURT test his dominant position in the exegetical tradition of this poem. This is even truer of the editors: wh ...

‘IN PONDERE NON MAGNO SATIS PONDEROSAE...’ 17 well as his text, have nevertheless proved satis ponderosae, it is not only becaus ...

18 VALÉRY BERLINCOURT [Milan 1731–2 (Bentivoglio-Argelati)] Corpus omnium veterum poetarum Latinorum cum eorumdem Italica versio ...

STONES IN THE FOREST: EPIGRAPHIC ALLUSION IN THE SILVAE* Kathleen M. Coleman Text was everywhere in the Roman world. While the c ...

20 KATHLEEN M. COLEMAN cerned: if literary texts quote and reflect other works of literature, we should expect them to quote and ...

STONES IN THE FOREST 21 ualde te rogo, ut secundum pedes statuae meae catellam pingas et coro- nas et unguenta et Petraitis omne ...

22 KATHLEEN M. COLEMAN ated with a grand imperial gesture of recusatio to describe his decision not to join the freedman decuria ...

STONES IN THE FOREST 23 position, however routine and banal. A sense of the interest and effort that was invested in the draftin ...

24 KATHLEEN M. COLEMAN phoses too, the replication of phrasing from the epigraphic register overlaying the mythology with a vene ...

STONES IN THE FOREST 25 uixi et quem dederat cursum Fortuna peregi, et nunc magna mei sub terras ibit imago. urbem praeclaram st ...

26 KATHLEEN M. COLEMAN The contrast is patent, the licit relationship expressed with formulaic brevity, the illicit displaying a ...

STONES IN THE FOREST 27 cial twist to Ovid’s choice of first-person narrative here: even death does not stop the loquacious bird ...