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Petronius 35.4*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Ramon Baltar Veloso
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… super scorpionem + pisciculum marinum +, super sagittarium oclopetam, super capricornum locustam marinam, super aquarium anserem, super pisces duos mullos.

The unsoundness of the area following scorpionem is brought out by its extreme vagueness (Heinsius) coupled with the stylistically inelegant repetition of marinum/ -am, - objectionable in Petronius. I should like to submit what I believe to be a plausible way of restoring the text.

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Shorter Notes
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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 26 , Issue 2 , December 1976 , pp. 319
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1976

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References

1 The text is that of Díaz, M.C. Díaz y (Petronio Arbitro. Satiricón, Barcelona, 1968–1969).Google Scholar

2 In Burman's commentary (Amsterdam, 1743).

3 For other proposals, see Rose, K.F.C.- Sullivan, J.P. (CQ 18 (1968), 180–4Google Scholar) and Bastomsky, S.J. (Emerita 37 (1969), 367–70).Google Scholar

4 Surely one of the Weevers, probably the Lesser Weever (see Lythgoe, J.-G., Fishes of the Sea (London, 1971), p. 229).Google Scholar

5 See Thompson, D'A.W., A Glossary of Greek Fishes (London, 1947), pp. 56–7Google Scholar; Saint-Denis, E. de, Le Vocabulaire des ani- maux marins en latin classique (Paris, 1947), p. 33.Google Scholar

6 See Davidson, A., Mediterranean Seafood (Harmondsworth, 1972), p. 132.Google Scholar

7 Most of them are concerned with particulars of external structre and remedies for its sting.