By Cato, Varro, W. D. Hooper, Harrison Boyd Ash
Cato (M. Porcius Cato) the elder (234–149 BCE) of Tusculum, statesman and soldier, was once the 1st very important author in Latin prose. His speeches, works on jurisprudence and the artwork of struggle, his precepts to his son on a number of matters, and his nice old paintings on Rome and Italy are misplaced. yet now we have his De Agricultura; terse, critically clever, grimly funny, it supplies ideas in quite a few elements of a farmer's economic system, together with even clinical and cooking recipes, and divulges attention-grabbing info of family lifestyles. Varro (M. Terentius), 116–27 BCE, of Reate, well known for his significant studying, used to be an antiquarian, historian, philologist, pupil of technological know-how, agriculturist, and poet. He used to be a republican who was once reconciled to Julius Caesar and was once marked out through him to oversee an meant nationwide library. Of Varro's greater than seventy works related to 1000s of volumes we've got just one on agriculture and state affairs (Rerum Rusticarum) and a part of his paintings at the Latin language (De Lingua Latina; Loeb nos. 333, 334), notwithstanding we all know a lot approximately his Satires. all the 3 books on state affairs starts with a good mise en scene and makes use of discussion. the 1st booklet bargains with agriculture and farm administration, the second one with sheep and oxen, the 3rd with chook and the preserving of different animals huge and small, together with bees and fishponds. There are full of life interludes and a photograph heritage of political occasions.
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18 It seems likely that some of the iambographers’ poems also circulated in gnomologia, as Bowie suggests for Plutarch’s citation of Sem. 5W19 and I suggest for Tzetzes’ citation of Archil. 215W (see Chapter 5). An alternative to the Alexandrine edition of Archilochus organized by metre emerges from Athenaeus’ mode of citation. In his seventeen quotations of Archilochus only twice does Athenaeus refer to speciWc books or sections, the elegies (483d: Kí KºåªåßïØò ¼ 4W) and the tetrameters (415d: Kí ôåôæÆìÝôæïØò ¼ 167W), although the latter could be an inference from metre, since the poem appears to be an epode (fr.
8 Hermann ¼ 4W); Kí ôfiH ðæþôfiø ôHí ½¸ıäßÆò NÜìâøí (Schol. in Nic. Th. 3 ¼ fr. 42 Masson); Hipponax in primo (Prisc. Gramm. Lat. iii. 16 ¼ 35W); ÉððHíÆî äåıôÝæfiø (Antiattic. in Bekker, Anecd. Gr. 18 ¼ 118aW). Athenaeus quotes Hipponax 15 times; twice only he speciWes Kí ôïEò NÜìâïØò but with no reference to book numbers (Ath. 324a ¼ 166W; Ath. 370a ¼ 104W). 14 See Hauvette (1905), 97–112 on the Alexandrine edition of Archilochus. 15 Úæåߺïåïò Kí KºåªåßïØò (Ath. 483d ¼ 4W; Orion, Etym. col. 22 Sturz ¼ 14W).
Reporting the opinion of Pausimachus of Miletus (according to Janko) or Crates of Mallos (according to Asmis), that poets compose in a particular genre by convention (íüìïò) and not by nature (çýóØò), Philodemus mentions Sappho along with Archilochus: ïƒ ª½aæ NÆìâïðïØïd ôæƪ،a ðïØïFóØí; ŒÆd ïƒ ôæƪfiøäïðïØïd ðܺØí NÆìâØŒÜ; ŒÆd ÓÆðçþ ôØíÆ NÆìâØŒHò ðïØåE; ŒÆd Úæåߺïåïò ïPŒ NÆìâØŒHò (Philod. de Poem. 1, fr. 37 We shall return to this passage in 34 M. L. West, personal communication. ). 35 Aloni (2006), 99.