The Poetry of Statius

28 KATHLEEN M. COLEMAN Sometimes epigraphic terminology is combined with an emphasis on the inscribed register, as in the instru ...

STONES IN THE FOREST 29 specific occasions (however one is to understand the term “commis- sioned”),^28 the Silvae are strongly ...

30 KATHLEEN M. COLEMAN which gives him the opportunity to evoke Catullus with some (re- spectfully) cheeky hendecasyllables in r ...

STONES IN THE FOREST 31 honored, buildings dedicated, roads constructed, deaths mourned, are indissolubly associated with epigra ...

32 KATHLEEN M. COLEMAN Lysippus’, I thought it was ‘by Phidias’ ”).^35 Statius, on the other hand, completely effaces this inscr ...

STONES IN THE FOREST 33 But not without glory is he sent to the shades. His ashes burn with As- syrian spice and his slender fea ...

34 KATHLEEN M. COLEMAN carpere, nil aeui poterunt uitiare labores: sic ca<u>tum membris, tantas uenerabile marmor spirat o ...

STONES IN THE FOREST 35 absence of an epitaph; they do not themselves constitute the epitaph, but they dispense with the need fo ...

36 KATHLEEN M. COLEMAN sed mortalis honos, agilis quem dextra laborat: nos tibi, laudati iuuenis rarissima coniunx, longa nec ob ...

STONES IN THE FOREST 37 recovery from illness. I won’t say anything about it, for fear of seem- ing to take advantage of the dea ...

38 KATHLEEN M. COLEMAN in Pannonia twice, both before and after he served as legate in Galatia, since he was commissioned in two ...

STONES IN THE FOREST 39 to replace its dilapidated predecessor on his estate at Surrentum. The climax of the poem is reached whe ...

40 KATHLEEN M. COLEMAN lae / Gauranosque sinus et aestuantes / septem montibus admouere Baias, “delighting to move the Euboean S ...

STONES IN THE FOREST 41 inscribed text into speech, when he employs another of his divine spokesmen to compliment Domitian on br ...

42 KATHLEEN M. COLEMAN be read like this, in fact, in Statius’ poem.^50 The similarity with Frontinus’ account of the Anio Novus ...

STONES IN THE FOREST 43 would render their mundane lives exotic with his verbal art, does not accommodate the nuts and bolts of ...

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WANDERING WOODS AGAIN: FROM POLIZIANO TO GROTIUS Harm-Jan van Dam Woods will keep moving. Several years ago I discussed early co ...

46 HARM-JAN VAN DAM author of the first printed commentary on Statius’ Silvae,^3 Poliziano defined a silva as a genus scriptioni ...

WANDERING WOODS AGAIN 47 impetus, festinare and the like enter the Renaissance critical vocabu- lary of the silva(e). The fact t ...