Persius—Poet of the Stoics

J. M. K. Martin

doi:10.1017/S0017383500006380

Persius—Poet of the Stoics

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 January 2009

J. M. K. Martin

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There can be little doubt that the extant remains of Persius form the whole of his writings. In his boyhood he had indulged in the literary exercises of the classroom, and these immature efforts included a tragedy, a book of travels, and some lines on the elder Arria, whose Non dolet1 was an appropriate subject for a young Stoic to commemorate. These experiments had little merit, otherwise they would not have been destroyed on the advice of Cornutus, his friend and teacher and literary executor.

Type: Research Article
Information: Greece & Rome , Volume 8 , Issue 24 , May 1939 , pp. 172 - 182

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0017383500006380 [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright © The Classical Association 1939

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^{page 172 note 3} Vita, Editum librum continuo mirari homines et diripere coeperunt.

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^{page 173 note 2} Ad Sat. ii, ‘hominem sane eruditum et paterno se affectu diligentem’. vi. 12 seq.

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^{page 176 note 2} Vita, ‘summe dilectus a Paeto Thrasea est ita ut peregrinaretur’….

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^{page 177 note 1} Persius, Jahn: Proleg. xxxvGoogle Scholar, ‘speciem magis veri atque splendorem quam ipsam veritatem quaesivit’.

^{page 178 note 1} Dill, Rom. Soc., book iii, chap. I, ‘The Philosophic Director.’

^{page 178 note 2} ‘Sero cognovit et Senecam, sed non ut caperetur eius ingenio.’

^{page 178 note 3} Sat. iii, ad init.

^{page 179 note 1} Pace Bury, Rom. Emp., p. 462.Google Scholar

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