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Lvciliana

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

A. E. Housman
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A Cautious man, as I said at the outset, will not edit Lucilius; for it is an editor's business to pronounce an opinion on all the difficulties in his author, and when the author is in fragments the opinion will oftener be wrong than right. But a critic of Lucilius who is not also his editor, and can pick and choose among the pieces, is in a somewhat happier case; and I will now go on to attempt the correction or elucidation of certain passages where I seem to myself to have arrived at probable conclusions.

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Research Article
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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 1 , Issue 2-3 , July 1907 , pp. 148 - 159
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1907

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page 150 note 1 How the unmetrical Socratium of 742 (Non. p. 237) should be amended is not quite certain: probablj Socraticmn, ‘Socrates' disciple’.

page 151 note 1 Leo Mr (Goett, gel. Anz. 1906 p. 846) also defends atechnon, but explains it as meaning ‘alien from the epistolary style’.

page 154 note 1 Marx Mr has made no addition to Lucian Mueller's apparatus criticus for Nonius, and has not even availed himself of the additions made by others. Here his readers are left in ignorance of the variant quasi.

page 156 note 1 Marx Mr adduces Cic. ad Att. ii 19 2 uior uia, ‘quae locutio quid significet,’ says he, ‘non indagare possumus nisi diuinando.’ If it means anything, it means ‘ I take a middle course’: the context admits no other sense.

page 158 note 1 Buecheler Leo Mr at Pers. i 27 rightly discards all that follows faciam: in the words of Lucilius he modifies Lachmann's conjecture thus, ‘ut me scire uolo dici, mihi conscius si sum, | ne damnum faciam’, which is nearer the MSS but inferior in all other respects. The next words Mr. (Goett. gel. Anz. 1906 p. 858) transposes as follows, ‘ scire hoc nescit se, alios id | scire nisi scierit’; but nisi scierit is not Lucilian, and a similar exception must be taken to Mr Leo's conjecture (ib. pp. 840 and 856) in verse 833 (Non. p. 405) ‘signabat nihil | quern amaret’, for there is no evidence that Lucilius pronounced nihil as a disyllable.

page 159 note 1 Or than Marx Mr can tell of Titinius, whom at 169 (Non. p. 427) he first creates out of the titene of the MSS, then afflicts with the vice of gluttony, and then consigns to Tartarus. Others write ‘Tisi phone Tityi e pulmonibus atque adipe unguen |ex-coctum attulit, Eumenidum sanctissima Erinys’, but this fact Marx Mr has judged it prudent to conceal.