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Ausonius, ep. 4 and Horace, ep. 1.14.9*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Anna De Pretis
Anna De Pretis
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University of Bristol, a.de-pretis@bris.ac.uk
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Bentley's emendation in Horace, Ep. 1.14.9 (avet for amal has been accepted by many scholars as correct and harmonizes with the tone of Horace's letter, in which he expresses his impatience to go back to the countryside and at the same time his inability to fulfil his desire (Ep. 1.14.6–9: Me quamvis Lamiaepietas et cura moratur, / fratrem maerentis, rapto de fratre dolentis / insolabiliter, tamen istuc mens animusque / fert et avet spatiis obstantia rumpere claustra).

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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 49 , Issue 2 , December 1999, pp. 644 - 647
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1999

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References

1 R., Bentley (ed.), Q. Horatius Flaccus (London, 1714), 2, 46.Google Scholar

2 Among the others by KieBling, and Heinze, (edd.), Q. Horatius Flaccus. Opera, 3, Briefe, re-edited by Erich, Burck (Berlin, 1957)Google Scholar; Fraenkel, E., Horace (Oxford, 1957)Google Scholar; F., Klingner (ed.), Q. Horati Flacci Opera (Lipsiae, 1959)Google Scholar; Shackleton, D. R. Bailey (ed.), Q. Horati Flacci Opera (Stutgardiae, 1985)Google Scholar; R., Mayer (ed.), Horace. Epistles Book I (Cambridge, 1994).Google Scholar

3 Green, R. P. H. (ed.), The Works of Ausonius (Oxford, 1991)Google Scholar; C., Schenkl (ed.), D. Magni Ausonü Opuscula (Berolini, 1883)Google Scholar; R., Peiper (ed.), D. Magni Ausonü Burdigalensis Opuscula (Lipsiae, 1886)Google Scholar; S., Prete (ed.), Decimi Magni Ausonü Burdigalensis Opuscula (Leipzig, 1978)Google Scholar; White, H. G. Evelyn (ed.), Ausonius (London and New York, 1919)Google Scholar follows Peiper, and A., Pastorino (ed.), Opere di Decimo Magno Ausonio (Torino, 1971)Google Scholar follows Schenkl.

4 See Pastorino (n. 3), 98.

5 It is a distich formed by a dactylic hexameter and an iambic acataleptic dimeter, which Ausonius also employs in Ep. 1 Green (= 3 Schenkl, 18 Peiper, 16 Prete), to his son Esperius.

6 See the lists of loci similes in Schenkl (n. 3), and in Peiper (n. 3); and Green, R. P. H., ‘Ausonius's use of the classical Latin poets: some new examples and observations’, CQ 27 (1977), 441–52CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Colton, R. E., ‘Some echoes of Horace in Ausonius's Epistulae', CB 54 (1977), 27–30Google Scholar; and id., ‘Vergil and Horace in Ausonius, Epist. 4’, CB 58 (1982), 40–2.

7 I owe this remark to the referee of this article.

8 This is up to the present moment the only allusion to Horace that has been found in the first half of the poem, but, like the ring composition (see n. 12), it contributes to softening the division of the letter into two parts.

9 Mayer (n. 2), 207.

10 A learned and profound analysis of these lines is in Mastandrea, P., ‘Lucrezio e Orazio (Epist. I 14, 6–9)', GIF 10 (1979), 275–92Google Scholar, who, nevertheless, does not stress enough Horace's criticism of Lamia.

11 Gratwick, A., ‘Habeo and aveo: the Romance future’, CQ 22 (1972), 391–8.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

12 It is worth noticing, though, the ring-composition of Ausonius's letter: 1. 36 (veni [… ] citus) is repeated with inversion in the invitation of 1. 12 (citus veni remo aut rota): Paulus's poetry is mentioned both at the beginning and at the end of the poem (especially 1. 3: Camenarum […] Castaliarum, and 11. 35–6: tuarum / […] Camenarum), and both in the first and in the last line there is a reference to loyalty: 1. 1 (Si qua fides […]) and 1. 42 (non Poena, sed Graecafide).