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Textual Notes on Petronius1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

J. P. Sullivan
J. P. Sullivan
Affiliation:
State University of Mew York at Buffalo
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Extract

The uneasiness caused by deberent loqui is reflected in the variant readings and the emendations put forward. Is there in fact a personal subject? To understand iuvenes is possible but clumsy, but if the tragic poets themselves are intended, then these great writers are strangely selfish. Petronius surely is talking about the proper language for good oratory (cf. 2. 7), which depends on a healthy literary language in general. This rules outWilamowitz's too particular and Fuchs's uglier supplements: easier than deceret would be deberet, paralleled almost exactly in Petronius’ contemporary, Seneca (de Ira 3. 3. 1). Deberent and deberemus were doubtless due to a desire to provide a personal subject for the misunderstood impersonal verb.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Classical Quarterly , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , May 1970 , pp. 188 - 190
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1970

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References

1 The text printed is k. Müller's (munich, 1961) with some additions to the apparatus. Müller 2 refers to the second edition printed in petronius, Satyrica (Munich, 1965) by Müller and W.Ehlers, I am grateful to Mr.L.D. Reynolds for some helpful comments on this paper.