Handouts at Dinner
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4948281 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William J Slater (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 1/2 |
| Pages | 107 |
| Publication date | 2000-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Phoenix (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8299 • E-ISSN: 1929-4883 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1089093 |
| OpenAlex | W2324718726 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 10 |
The listeners who follow them are like performers, hired and bought. They huddle together with a middleman; in the middle of a basilica sportulae are handed out as openly as in a triclinium. They run from one court to another for the same wage. Hence these people are called not without humour Sophocleses from sophos and kaleisthai; in Latin the name given them is laudiceni. Sherwin-White in his commentary on this passage deals only with the explanatory words in Greek in the manuscripts, which he would delete as a gloss.2 One could add that Pliny would have known that kalein and not kaleisthai was required as an explanation, since the parasites shout Sophos, i.e., kalein sophos-Hoorayshouters, while sophos kaleisthai s not meaningful at all; kaleisthai seems to be a mistake prompted by the word vocantur. But it is unclear, despite Sherwin-White, why we need the Latin variant. The whole explanation looks like a grammarian's gloss, since Hooray-shouters are obviously the claqueurs wanted in a law court, while Dinner-praisers interrupts the argument. There is a more interesting problem. Why does Pliny find it obvious that handing out sportulae as bribes in a basilica should be compared to handing them
Classical Antiquity Studies · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Environmental Science · Linguistics and language evolution
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,21 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2016 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |