J P Postgate
Biographic Data
| ID | 5626374 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J P Postgate |
| GIVEN NAMES | J P |
| FAMILY NAME | Postgate |
| SIGNATURE | POSTGATE J P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Liverpool Hospital |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 40 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1902 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Tibulliana
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A Supplement to the Apparatus Criticus of Claudian
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Tibulliana
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Observations on the Oedipus Coloneus of Sophocles
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Propertius I. xxi
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Silvae Manilianae Appendix
On the XV of Ovid's Metamorphoses
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Propertiana
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Catullus, Tibullus, Pervigilium Veneris
Catullus (84 54BCE) couples consummate poetic artistry with intensity of feeling. Tibullus (c. 54 19 BCE) proclaims love for Delia and Nemesis in elegy. The beautiful verse of the Pervigilium Veneris (fourth century CE?) celebrates a spring festival in honour of the goddess of love
A Short Guide to the Accentuation of Ancient Greek
The Meaning of Meaning
The Ionicvs a Minore of Horace
The Twelfth Ode of the Third Book of Horace consists of four stanzas in this metre, each stanza consisting of ten feet. How these feet should be distributed into verses is a matter of much dispute; but inasmuch as it does not concern me at the present time I shall avoid it by following certain editors of Horace and printing each stanza continuously
The Site of the Battle of Pharsalia
The long and heated controversy on the site of the great battle seems drawing to a conclusion. The disquisitions of Dr. Rice Holmes first in the Classical Quarterly ii (1908) pp. 271-292, and secondly, improved and strengthened, in the third volume of his ‘Roman Republic’ (1923) pp. 452-467, and the topographical researches and arguments of Mr. F. L. Lucas, Annual of the British School at Athens , no. xxiv, pp. 34-53, have shown, I think, beyond …
Notes on the Text of Pliny's Epistles
The following notes are based on the apparatus criticus in the edition of E. T. Merrill (Teubner, 1922): I. 20. 5 ‘uides ut statuas, signa, picturas, hominum denique multorumqne animalium formas, arborum etiam, si modo sint decorae, nihil magis quam amplitudo commendet.’ Why ‘many animals ’ and not ‘many men’ and ‘many trees’ ? Read mutorum ; with ‘animalia,’ a standing opposition to ‘homines,’ as in Seneca, Ep. 76. 26 'ea quae tam homini conting…
Notes on the Asclepiad Odes of Horace
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Phaedriana
For this Fable both Ademar and the Weissenburg MS. ( Wissemburgensis ) fail us. We have, however, the representatives of R, which Thiele groups under his Recensio Gallicana , and one (the Codex Vindobonensis lat. 303) which he places in his Recensio Vetus ; of the other two one does not contain it, and the third, the Erfordtensis at Berlin, has a wholly independent version, which Thiele most strangely regards as imported from ‘Phaedrus in prose,’…
Textual Notes on Phaedrus
Phaedriana. II. The Nouae Fabvlae
Since the time of Burman it has been amongst the aims of Phaedrian scholarship to endeavour to make good the imperfections of the direct tradition by recourse to the indirect. That losses have been sustained, one piece of evidence is enough to show. In the sixth line of his Preface to Book I. Phaedrus says that trees speak in his fables; but no trees speak in any fable now left to us, either in the five books as handed down in PR or in the Perott…
Phaedriana
The fabulist Phaedrus, or Phaeder if that was his real name, was unhappy in his life, and ill-fortune pursued him after death. In addition to accidental corruption and the interpolation which this provoked, his five books of verse have suffered from disruption and partial conversion into prose. Restoration of the original, so far as that original is capable of being restored, is neither simple nor easy. The sources of the text are diverse and dif…
Phaedriana. Addendvm To I
The MS. hie tunc of V. 6 has no friends. L. Mueller's hoc tunc is weak and flat, and L. Rank, Mnemosyne 40. 51, is justly dissatisfied with the hietans of M. Havet's larger and smaller editions, to which the hians of Verg. Aen. 12. 754 lends no sufficient support, as there the dog is opening its mouth before it bites. Add to this that it is by no means certain that Phaedrus would either have used the word or used it in the simple sense of opening…
On Ovid Fasti VI. 271 Sq
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Adnotanda in Latin Prosody
The statement in the second-and-third edition of Sommer's excellent Handbuch der lateinischen Laut- und Formenlehre (1914), p. 462, that the oldest scansion is diūtius , to say nothing of the unqualified assertion in our current grammars and dictionaries that the u in it and in diutissime is long or the regrettable silence of the principal editors of Plautus upon the subject, is of itself sufficient warrant for a brief discussion. The relevant fa…
Notes on Ovid's Tristia and Ex Ponto
Thus reads the ‘optimus Laurentianus,’ and starting hence we shall refuse claudent , the facile but incoherent correction of some MSS., and still more the claudunt which the majority offer. Nor for all that shall we make the ineptitude of these readings a ground for condemning the pentameter, which, save for its lack of grammatical construction, is perfectly faultless in expression. Turning our attention to the hexameter, we observe that Parca , …
Misunderstandings of Caesar and Horace
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Textual Notes on Lucan VIII. and Seneca Dialogi
So in this outburst of Cornelia should line 104 be punctuated. For the poenas crudelis compare VII. 431 ‘quod semper saeuas debet tibi Parthia poenas ’ and Verg. A. 6. 501 quis tam crudelis optauit sumere poenas ? whence, or from ib. 585, ‘uidi et crudelis dantem Salmonea poenas ’ we may suppose Lucan derived it. The feeble vulgate punctuation which puts the comma after crudelis , supposed to be vocative, well exemplifies the mischievous influenc…
Catullus, Tibullus, Pervigilium Veneris
Catullus (84 54BCE) couples consummate poetic artistry with intensity of feeling. Tibullus (c. 54 19 BCE) proclaims love for Delia and Nemesis in elegy. The beautiful verse of the Pervigilium Veneris (fourth century CE?) celebrates a spring festival in honour of the goddess of love
Misunderstandings of Caesar and Horace
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The Meaning of Meaning
On the Text of the Stromateis of Clement of Alexandria
The germ of the following paper is as old as the previous century, when in the year 1898 my attention was accidentally drawn to one of the passages discussed below. But progress was impossible until the facts of the MS.tradition of the Stromateis were properly presented–a service for which we are indebted to the excellent edition of Clement by Dr. O. Stählin (Leipzig 1906–1909)
A Few Notes on Athenaevs
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An Early Corruption in Virgil
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Further Notes on Lucan VIII
In the proper punctuation of this passage I have been in part anticipated by Francken, who saw that the apodosis to the conditional clause was to be sought in 235–7. But, as the second edition of the Teubner text still keeps it in its primitive incoherence, I make no apology for dealing with it here
On Some Passages in Lucan Viii
These lines conclude the speech of Pompey to Cornelia when she met him on the shore of Lesbos after the disaster of Pharsalia. This speech Mr. Heitland in his excellent Introduction to Haskins' Lucan has stigmatised as ‘abominable’.1 So far as the bulk of the speech is concerned a plea may perhaps be urged in mitigation of this judgment. Cornelia has completely broken down at the sight of her unfortunate husband, and his first object should be to…
On Some Passages of Catullus and Martial
Cartault's A Century on Tibvllvs
The Professor of Latin Poetry in the University of Paris has addressed himself to a piece of work which badly wanted doing, and he has done it, on the whole, very well. His object, as the first words of his preface declare, was not simply to produce a bibliographical repertory, however serviceable this might be, but a study in history and methodology. The labour of giving a summary of the contributions of scholars to the criticism and elucidation…
On Manilivs III. 590–617
Mr. Garrod has earned the gratitude of all students of Manilius by his detection of the ratio of the series in iii. 30 sqq. Let me do the last first. My suggestion of uix for bis in 616 of course disappears; bis sex is required by the series: and in 595–6 (of which more presently) the number meant is 75, not 76
A Few Notes on Athenaevs
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On some Tibullian Problems
Dissatisfied with current views upon the exordium of Tibullus II. i. (vv. 1–24), I proposed in Selections from Tibullus (1903) to make the occasion of the poem the Sementiuae Feriae instead of the Ambarualia . This proposal, criticised, amongst others, by Mr. Warde Fowler in an interesting article in the Classical Review (xxii. 1908, pp. 36 sqq.), I have now abandoned ( ib . p. 40 b ). But the difficulties which led me to break away from previous…
On the Text of Juvenal I. 115
Amongst the readings of the Parisian codex collated by Mr. Stuart (supra pp. 1–7) which he classes as interpolations is one whose singularity at once arrests attention. In the well-known passage, I. 113 sqq., where all known MSS. including P have etsi, funesta Pecunia, templo nondum habitas, nullas nummorum ereximus aras, ut colitur Pax atque Fides Victoria Virtus quaeque salutato crepitat Concordia nido, II presents firma instead of atque
On Ovid Fasti VI. 263 Sqq
On November 8, 1894, I read before the Cambridge Philological Society a paper in which the reading and the interpretation of this passage were discussed at length. A brief report of the paper was published in the Proceedings of the Society, Nos. 37–39, p. 16; and the cardinal correction (in v. 274) was received into the text of the Fasti which Professor G. A. Davies published in the Corpus Poetarum Latinorum . The Proceedings of the Cambridge Phi…
Emendations of Claudian
Since the appearance of Th. Birt's monumental edition of Claudian in 1892, followed in the next year by the Teubner one of Julius Koch, but little has been done for the text of a poet who for more reasons than one deserves something better than neglect. And I shall be glad if the publication of the ensuing notes draws the attention of scholars to the work that has yet to be done. The majority of my corrections were made some sixteen years ago; bu…
Horatiana
Among the multitude of commentators by which an Horatian crux is surrounded it is reasonable to suppose that one or two at least have seen some vestiges of the truth, and I will therefore preface my remarks upon the meaning of this ode and its ultimate stanza by quoting first from an annotation by Dean Wickham
Paralipomena
That the hiatus in 33 is inadmissible in an Augustan poet has long been recognised by the critical. Of the three other examples, Prop. II xv. 1 ‘o me felicem! o nox mihi Candida et o tu,’ ib. xxxii. 45 ‘haec eadem ante illam ( add iam) inpune et Lesbia fecit,’ and Manil. I 795 ‘emeritus caelum et Clausi magna propago,’ only the first can claim any excuse, on the ground of the speaker's excitement and the pause after felicem, but, metre apart, eve…
On the Text of the Stromateis of Clement of Alexandria
The germ of the following paper is as old as the previous century, when in the year 1898 my attention was accidentally drawn to one of the passages discussed below. But progress was impossible until the facts of the MS.tradition of the Stromateis were properly presented–a service for which we are indebted to the excellent edition of Clement by Dr. O. Stählin (Leipzig 1906–1909)
Neaera as a Common Name
There are two undoubted instances of this use of Neaera in Prudentius which are cited by Mr. Ullman in support of his contention that in Horace another proper name may be similarly employed. I imagine however that to an unprejudiced sense of Latin usage these instances will themselves seem to be strange and in need of explanation
Textual Notes on Lucan VIII. and Seneca Dialogi
So in this outburst of Cornelia should line 104 be punctuated. For the poenas crudelis compare VII. 431 ‘quod semper saeuas debet tibi Parthia poenas ’ and Verg. A. 6. 501 quis tam crudelis optauit sumere poenas ? whence, or from ib. 585, ‘uidi et crudelis dantem Salmonea poenas ’ we may suppose Lucan derived it. The feeble vulgate punctuation which puts the comma after crudelis , supposed to be vocative, well exemplifies the mischievous influenc…
Notes on Ovid's Tristia and Ex Ponto
Thus reads the ‘optimus Laurentianus,’ and starting hence we shall refuse claudent , the facile but incoherent correction of some MSS., and still more the claudunt which the majority offer. Nor for all that shall we make the ineptitude of these readings a ground for condemning the pentameter, which, save for its lack of grammatical construction, is perfectly faultless in expression. Turning our attention to the hexameter, we observe that Parca , …
Misunderstandings of Caesar and Horace
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Adnotanda in Latin Prosody
The statement in the second-and-third edition of Sommer's excellent Handbuch der lateinischen Laut- und Formenlehre (1914), p. 462, that the oldest scansion is diūtius , to say nothing of the unqualified assertion in our current grammars and dictionaries that the u in it and in diutissime is long or the regrettable silence of the principal editors of Plautus upon the subject, is of itself sufficient warrant for a brief discussion. The relevant fa…
Textual Notes on Phaedrus
Phaedriana. II. The Nouae Fabvlae
Since the time of Burman it has been amongst the aims of Phaedrian scholarship to endeavour to make good the imperfections of the direct tradition by recourse to the indirect. That losses have been sustained, one piece of evidence is enough to show. In the sixth line of his Preface to Book I. Phaedrus says that trees speak in his fables; but no trees speak in any fable now left to us, either in the five books as handed down in PR or in the Perott…
Phaedriana
The fabulist Phaedrus, or Phaeder if that was his real name, was unhappy in his life, and ill-fortune pursued him after death. In addition to accidental corruption and the interpolation which this provoked, his five books of verse have suffered from disruption and partial conversion into prose. Restoration of the original, so far as that original is capable of being restored, is neither simple nor easy. The sources of the text are diverse and dif…
Phaedriana. Addendvm To I
The MS. hie tunc of V. 6 has no friends. L. Mueller's hoc tunc is weak and flat, and L. Rank, Mnemosyne 40. 51, is justly dissatisfied with the hietans of M. Havet's larger and smaller editions, to which the hians of Verg. Aen. 12. 754 lends no sufficient support, as there the dog is opening its mouth before it bites. Add to this that it is by no means certain that Phaedrus would either have used the word or used it in the simple sense of opening…
On Ovid Fasti VI. 271 Sq
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Phaedriana
For this Fable both Ademar and the Weissenburg MS. ( Wissemburgensis ) fail us. We have, however, the representatives of R, which Thiele groups under his Recensio Gallicana , and one (the Codex Vindobonensis lat. 303) which he places in his Recensio Vetus ; of the other two one does not contain it, and the third, the Erfordtensis at Berlin, has a wholly independent version, which Thiele most strangely regards as imported from ‘Phaedrus in prose,’…
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