Lupus in fabula

This paper seeks to list some pieces of evidence for the fact that the ancient Roman saying ‘lupus in fabula’ does not refer to a certain situation in a – lost, nursery, Aesopian, folk etc. – tale but it can be merely and directly traced back to a Greek and Roman belief that if a wolf saw somebody before the person saw the wolf, the sight of the wolf struck the person dumb. The wolf ‘in fabula’ is equivalent with the wolf ‘in situ’, namely the wolf ‘in a forest’, and they share an important feature: if one sees them, they strike one dumb. So, in this saying ‘fabula’ (talk, chat) there is a meta-forest. Then the paper, making use of this idea, offers an interpretation of Verg. ecl. 9, 54.This paper seeks to list some pieces of evidence for the fact that the ancient Roman saying ‘lupus in fabula’ does not refer to a certain situation in a – lost, nursery, Aesopian, folk etc. – tale but it can be merely and directly traced back to a Greek and Roman belief that if a wolf saw somebody before the person saw the wolf, the sight of the wolf struck the person dumb. The wolf ‘in fabula’ is equivalent with the wolf ‘in situ’, namely the wolf ‘in a forest’, and they share an important feature: if one sees them, they strike one dumb. So, in this saying ‘fabula’ (talk, chat) there is a meta-forest. Then the paper, making use of this idea, offers an interpretation of Verg. ecl. 9, 54

Horatius vini somnique benignus

Horatius költészetének egyik — elég figyelemre nem méltatott — vezérmotívuma a bor. A művekből kirajzolódó „Horatius”, a szerző versbeli alakmása hirtelen haragú, lobbanékony karakterként jelenik meg, aki azonban hajlamos a túlzott borfogyasztásra és az iránytalan, rosszkedvű tétlenségre is. Mozgalmas, fordulatos korának kérdéseire adott személyes válaszaiból az alulról jött, de társadalmi, művészi és anyagi téren egyaránt nagy magasságokat meghódított költő kiegyensúlyozatlansága és az ennek leküzdésére tett erőfeszítései is megismerhetők.Wine is one of the Leitmotivs in Horace's poetry, but after all, it has been relatively neglected. Horace who is conceived by the poems seems to be quick-to-become-angry, and of a hot-headed character. Anyway, he is obviously inclined to drink wine excessively and to suffer from an aimless and idle melancholy. He has risen economically, socially and in terms of art, and did not lack appropriate skills for his new positions. But his poetry can be read as a testimonial of an unbalanced and melancholic character, and as a document of efforts made against those bad instincts

Szilágyi János György emlékkönyv 1.

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