The Campanian Case of Gaius Lucilius

Downtrodden Satire from Suessa Aurunca

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ID9342010
AuthorsIan Goh (0000-0003-2850-553X, corresponding author)
Year2015
Issue40
Pages91-120
Publication date2015-07-27
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueIllinois Classical Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0363-1923 • E-ISSN: 2328-5265
PublisherUniversity of Illinois Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.5406/illiclasstud.40.0091
OpenAlexW1829609044
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited54

tamen hoc potius libeat decurrere campo, per quem magnus equos Auruncae flexit alumnus si uacat ac placidi rationem admittitis, edam.(Juv.1.19-21) 4 1.Thanks to the editors, for their organisation of the APA 2013 panel at which a version of this article was read, to the other panel members and the audience on that occasion, and to Emma Dench, Emily Gowers, and Marden Nichols, for advice and encouragement.2. Jerome Chron.143e Helm gives 148 BCE.Controversy surrounds the date, regularly emended to either 168 BCE, if we believe that Jerome miscopied the number giving the year of Lucilius' life in which he died, changing LX to XL, or 180 BCE, on the assumption that Jerome was misled by the identical nomina and cognomina of the respective consuls in that year and in 148 BCE.3. For a suggestive survey of the town's mostly post-Lucilian archaeological record, see De Caro (2012) 175-85.4. I have used the following texts and (adapted) translations: for Cicero's Orator, Hubbell (1939); for Diodorus, Welles (1963); for Horace

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