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Hadrian's Farewell to Life1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Timothy D. Barnes
Timothy D. Barnes
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The Queen's College, Oxford
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In 1915 a dispute over the meaning and interpretation of lines 3–4 of this poem prompted Ernst Hohl not only to propose reading ‘quo … locos’ instead of ‘quae … loca’ (a conjecture which he rightly abandoned in his edition of the Historia Augusta for the Teubner series in 1927) but also to question whether the poem really was composed by Hadrian.

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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 18 , Issue 2 , December 1968, pp. 384 - 386
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1968

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page 384 note 2 Neue Jahrbücher xxxv (1915), 201 ff.Google Scholar (O. Immisch), 412 f. (L. Deubner), 413 ff. (E. Hohl), 415 f. (Immisch again). For further stages in the controversy over lines 3/4 see Sajdak, J., Eos xx (1914/1915), 147 ff.,Google ScholarBerliner Philologische Wochenschrift (1916), 765 ff.;Google ScholarSchneider, St., Eos xxi (1916), 92 ff.;Google ScholarHollstein, H., Rheinisches Museum lxxi (1916), 406 ff.Google Scholar

page 384 note 3 Viz. in an article by Barb, A. A., Folklore lxi (1950), 15ff.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

page 384 note 4 See most recently Birley, A., Marcus Aurelius (1966), 58 f.Google Scholar

page 384 note 5 Loc. cit.

page 384 note 6 Hadrian was not unfamiliar with magic (Dio. 69. 11. 3, 22. 1; PGM iv. 2447 ff).Google Scholar

page 384 note 7 Dio 69. 22. 4.

page 384 note 8 For Serenus see M. Schanz–Hosius, C., Geschichte der römischen Litleratur iii 3 (1922), 23 f.; R.E. II A, 2562 f.Google Scholar

page 384 note 9 The fragment numbers are those in Fragmenta Poetarum Latinorum, ed. Morel, W. (1927).Google Scholar

page 385 note 1 For example by Wagner, J. K., Quaestiones Neotericae (1907), 46 f.Google Scholar

page 385 note 2 e.g. Sajdak, locc. citt. Against, Hohl, E., Bursians Jahresbericht clxxi (1915), 145 f.Google Scholar

page 385 note 3 Wagner, ibid., writes ‘etiam loca Erebi et verbura tale quale pallidulus vel placidulus apud Serenum non defuisse ex similitudine Hadriani et Ausoni concludo’.

page 385 note 5 For some other possible echoes of Ausonius in the Historia Augusta see Barnes, T. D., JRS lvii (1967).Google Scholar One occurs at Hadr. 20. 8;cf. Anson, , Epigrammata xxxviii (xvii), 70 n. 23.Google Scholar

page 385 note 6 Cf. Straub, J., Historia-Augusta-Colloquium 1963 (1964) 171 f.Google Scholar

page 385 note 7 See Lessing, C., Scriptorum Historiae Augustae Lexicon (1901–1906), s.v. melior, peior, poeta, versus.Google Scholar

page 385 note 8 See Lessing, op. cit., s.v. iocus; and, on the main source of the vitae of the emperors from Hadrian to Caracalla and some insertions into it, JRS lvii (1967), 65 ff.;Google ScholarSyme, R., Amrnianus and the Historia Augusta (1968), 90 ff.Google Scholar

page 385 note 9 Bursians Jahresbericht clxxi (1915), 145; cci (1924), 209.Google Scholar

page 386 note 1 Most of them are conveniently collected together at FPL pp. 153 ff.