Watt, William

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ARCTOS ACTA PHILOLOGICA FENNICA VOL. XXIII HELSINKI 1989 HELSINGFORS An tti Arj av a J aakko Aronen Christer Bruun Bjorn Forsen -Erkki Sironen s iegfried J akel Iiro Kajanto Mika Kajava Bengt Lofs tedt Leena Pietila-Cas tren Olli S alomies Erkki Sironen Timo S iron en Heikki Solin Antero Tammisto W.S. Watt De novis libris iudicia INDEX J erome and Women 5 Il culto arcaico nel Tarentum aRoma e la gens Valeria 19 The Name and Possessions of N ero' s Freedman Phaon 41 Zur Symbolik von dargestellten Handen 55 Thukydides als Historiker und Literat 67 A Humanist Credo 91 Cornelia Africani f. Gracchorum 119 N otizen eines Latin is ten zum Leviathan von Thomas Hobbes 133 Scenes of Ancient Rome in a 19th Cen-tury Souvenir Zu Konsuln der Jahre 115, 135, 195 145 n. Chr. 165 New Readings on Four Athenian In-scriptions of the Imperial Period 179 Una rilettura e un' integrazione di due epi-grafi osche di Ercolano (Po 124 e 126) 185 Analecta epigraphica CXXVI-CXXXII 195 Tetrao urogallus and Phasianus colchicus in Romano-Campanian Wall Paintings and Mosaics 223 Six Notes on Q. Curtius Index librorum in hoc volumine recensorum 249 253 309 313 Libri nobis missi Index Six Notes on Q. Curtius W.S. Watt The following editions are referred to: H. Snakenbur g (Delft 1724; with notes of N. Heinsius); C.T. Zumpt (Braunschweig 1849); T. Vogel (Leipzig 1880); K. Muller (Mi.inchen 1954). 4,6,9 igitur ab ea parte quam oppidani conspicere non possent opus orsus, ut a sensu eius averteret, turres muris admoveri iubet. The siege of Gaza: Alexander tries to divert the attention of the inhabitants from his tunnelling operations. No doubt it is possible to supply oppidanos as the object of averteret, but I suspect that animos should be inserted before averteret, where its loss would be easy. For animos avertere cf. TLL 2, 1320, 9ff.; the phrase is particularly frequent in Livy. 5,1,42 idem Amyntas adduxerat L principum Macedoniae liberos adultos ad custodiam corporis; quippe inter epulas hi sunt regis ministri idemque equos ineuntibus proelium admovent venantesque comitantur. The change from the singular regis to the plurals ineuntibus and venantes has been defended (e.g. by Zumpt) on the ground that Alexander was not the only or the first king of Macedonia to employ these young men on such duties; it was apparently an old custom, and the plurals include Alexander's predecessors on the throne. Most of the modern editors, however, have adopted Vogel' s emendation regibus; parallels for the assumed corruption are listed by Muller on 250 W.S. Watt p. 789. Against it, on the other hand, is the fact that nowhere else does Curtius have a certain example of minister construed with a dative; he has six examples of a genitive (including saevitiae at 10,1,8, which I take to be a genitive). I therefore suggest that regii would be a preferable change; the adjective is used by Curtius three times elsewhere (likewise preceding its noun) to designate these same young men: 5,2,13 unus ex regiis pueris; 8,6,7 puer nobilis ex regia cohorte; 10,7,16 puerorum regia cohors. In Snakenburg's edition Heinsius is stated to have proposed regi; I believe that this is a misprint (which has been reproduced in later editions) for regii. 6, 9, 6f. fremitus undique indignantium querentiumque tot a contione obstrepebat ... ; Nicomachus deinde et M etron et Cebalinus producti quae quisque detulerat exponunt. nullius eorum indicia Philotas ut particeps sceleris destinabatur; itaque indignatione expressa vox i nd i cum silentio except a est. Alexander's disclosure of a plot against his life was greeted with cries of indignation from his assembled soldiers. Then three informers were produced, none of whom implicated Philotas. "The evidence of the informers was not forced out of them by the indignation of the soldiers; they had given it already. . .. The meaning is that the outcry which followed Alexander's speech was succeeded (excepta) by silence." So D.R. Shackleton Bailey, CR 31 (1981) 177f. Since vox indicum does not make sense, indicum must either be deleted as a misguided gloss (so Vogel, followed by Muller) or emended. As a possible emendation I suggest militum, which is palaeographically good (m and in are almost identical; so too are it and d; and tic is the commonest of all interchanges); and the corruption has clearly been helped by the context (indicia just above). With Heinsius, I compare 9,3,1 ne sic quidem ulli militum vox exprim i potuit; 9?3 ,6 non fictas tuorum m ilitum voces verum necessitate ultima expressas. Six Notes on Q. Curtius 251 7 ,6,20 statuerat aut em [s·c. Alexander] par cere urbi conditae a Cyro; quippe non alium gentium illarum magis admiratus est quam hunc regem et Semiramin, quos et magnitudine animi et claritate rerum longe emicuisse credebat. Curtius uses emicare three times elsewhere: 8,2,26, of tela (for the reading here see Muller's note on p. 749); 8,4,3, of fulgura; 9,5, 10, of blood 'spurting out'. Nowhere else does he use it in the sense of' excel'; not surprisingly, because this is a very rare sense in pre-Apuleian Latin (TLL 5,2,487, 7 and 25 adduces only two instances). I would read eminuisse, a verb of which (in its various senses) Curtius is very fond; for the confusion of the two words see TLL ib. 483,50. 8,9,30 feminae epulas parant; ab isdem vznum ministratur, cuzus omnibus Indis largus est usus. regem mero somnoque sopitum in cubiculum paelices referunt patrio carmine no et i urn invocantes deos. The plural noctium 1s odd. Should we read noctis, on the supposition that the ending has been influenced by the beginning of invocantes? 8, 10,18 eadem felicitas ab Oceano revertentes temulentos corn issantesque inter ora hostium texit. The good fortune of Alexander's army in not being attacked on its drunken return from the Ocean. The only parallel for the phrase inter ora given by TLL 9,2,1086,70ff. is Verg. Aen. 2,681 manus inter maestorumque ora parentum. This is a description of the child Iulus being held by his mother up to his father, so that he is 'between the hands and faces of his parents'; it lends no support to the phrase in our passage. Perhaps inter ora should be changed to the common phrase ante ora (cf. TLL ib. 1087,18ff.). 

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