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352 THE CLASSICAL REVIEW.following Sinite exorator sim. Cf. Prol.Amph. 34, Nam iusta ab iustis iustus sumorator datus, and passim, where again theProhgus (Mercury) has a request to make ofthe audience. In the only other instance ofthe use of the word by Terence, ffeaut. 11,Oratorem esse voluit me,' non prologum, thesame signification is probable ; cf. 26 infra,qua re omnis vos oratos volo. The closeconnection in this passage with actorem(12) and orationem (15) makes it possible tounderstand orator here in a slightly difEerentsense—not ' ambassador,' however, but' advocate/Festus thus understood ffec.9 and Afranius92, and explained the use as pro deprecato-ribus; cf. with this explanation Cic. Imp.Pomp. 12, 35, legatos deprecatoresque misis-sent. Even in the use of the word of anembassy, it is to be noted that it is used notso much with reference to the spokesman orthe fact that the message is oral, as becausethe ambassador is a petitioner. This is noless true that his petition is in behalf ofanother. Accordingly, we find regularlymention of the thing for which he is to treat.Cf. Enn. Ann. 211, orator sine pace redit;Liv. 1, 15, 5, Veientes pacem petitum oratoresRomam mittunt; Verg. Aen. 11,100, lamqueoratores aderant... veniamque rogantes ; Plaut.Poen. 357, the command exora and the retortsed vide sis, ne tu oratorem hunc pugnispectaspostea; Stick. 494-5, Haut aequomst te interoratores accipi, of the ambassadors, and theretort Equidem hercle orator sum, sed proceditparum, of the parasite begging for a dinner.An overwhelming number of like passagesmight be cited to prove that orator wascommonly used of the ambassador as peti-tioner or intercessor, even in the face of thetestimony of Servius (Verg. Aen. 11, 100),of Festus (p. 198 Miill., Orare antiquosdixisse pro agere testimonio est, quod oratoresdicti et causarum actores et qui reipublicaemandatas causas agebant), and even of Varro(L.L. 6, 13, quia verba faoit apud eum adquern kgatur). *J. C. KlBTLAND, JUNB.Bobcat College, Geneva, N. Y.NOTE ON TER. AD. 223-4.THE MS. reading quasi iam usquam tibisint viginti minae, Dum huic obsequare hasbeen generally suspected and variouslyamended. The majority of editors, acceptingthe explanation of Donatns (Quasi numeroin aliquo ducas et in aliqua aestimatione con-stituas: et non, si velis, penitus contemnasviginti minus, dum modo huic obsequaris),have seen in the supposed abnormal use ofusquam the only objection to this under-standing of the passage. The only parallelthat has been cited for this use is found inJSun. 293, Neque virgost usquam neque ego,but here .the local force with which the wordis first introduced is the warrant, as it affordsthe opportunity for the turn. Negativeadverbs of place, however, and equivalentadverbial expressions are not uncommon iathis signification, e.g. nullo loco, ov8a.fi.ov.There may well be, then, two ways ofthinking with regard to the objection urgedon the score of usage against the traditionalinterpretation of this passage, but as to thestrength of the position taken by Dziatzkoagainst the logical inconsequence of thatinterpretation there can be no question.Sannio is to be made to feel that he is ingreat danger of suffering a total loss; thereis no longer any thought of reassuring him,and with age novi tuom animum the work ofintimidating him begins, quasi...obsequareis plainly a threat, and another is conveyedby implication in praeterea.. .Cyprum. I t isstrange that with this definite notion of themeaning to be conveyed and with but thesingle word obsequare not making for thatmeaning, Dziatzko should have been unableto hit upon a satisfactory emendation.Is not the passage as it stands capable ofinterpretation as he would have it inter-preted? The effect sought for may beobtained as well by making dum...obsequarerefer to the future as by substituting a wordthat will represent the actual present stateof affairs. In other words, we have a clausedenoting time 'contemporaneous in limit,'and not a proviso, as we have supposed it onthe authority of Donatus; and the subjunc-tive is anticipatory or due to subordinationto sint.Syrus has taken upon himself the task ofpersuading Sannio that he will do well toaccept what the girl cost him, and he accom-plishes his purpose by threatening the procurerwith the loss even of this, and by lettinghim see that his intended departure foravailable at https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009840X00039354Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. University of Basel Library, on 10 Jul 2017 at 16:45:34, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use,THE CLASSICAL REVIEW. 353Cyprus is known and has been counted uponto make him more complaisant. ' As if youwere at all sure of the twenty minae (as ifyou would ever get the twenty minae) untilyou come to terms with Aeschinus. Andbesides, it is currently reported that you areon the point of departure for Cyprus.'J . C. KlBTLAND, JUNB.Hobart College, Geneva, N. Y.RIESE'S ANTHOLOGIA LATIN A.Antkologia Latina. Ediderunt FEANCISCUSBUECHELER et ALEXANDER RIKSE. Teub-ner 1894-7. M. 17. 70.W E have here a second edition of the firstportion of Riese's Anihologia Latina, fol-lowed by a gathering which Buecheler hasmade of the metrical inscriptions, thusaccomplishing for Latin what Kaibel hasdone for Greek. The labour expended onthe work has been vast; to praise it wouldbe almost impertinent; to criticise it, oreven to convey any adequate idea of it,within the narrow limits of a review, isimpossible. I t will be an indispensableadjunct to any first-hand study of Latin.In whatever portion of the field a scholarmay be toiling, he will find matter for con-sideration in these volumes. The co-opera-tion of many scholars for a long time tocome, will be needed in order to arrive at afull understanding of these carmina. Everypractised Latinist who reads them withattention may expect to solve some diffi-culties which have baffled others. Buechelerhas achieved his task as no other livingman could have achieved it. But muchremains to be done, and the words of Aris-totle apply: 8o£ei av iravros £vai irpoayayeivKOI SiapOpuxrai TO. KOAWS e^ovra TTJ irepiypcujyfj.There is indeed much that is fatiguing, evenrepulsive to read in these carmina, but hewho perseveres will be amply repaid.Riese has given full consideration to thecriticisms of the poems contained in theAnihologia which have appeared since thedate of his first edition. Naturally, theinfluence of Baehrens has been great, per-haps too great. I t is much to be regrettedthat the editor has not given references tothe journals or works in which the criticismsquoted by him have been published. Thiswould have cost him little labour, and thereader who wishes to hunt up the originalarticles must waste time hugely for want ofclues. Also, the abbreviations used are notclearly set forth. Those who read thevolume for the first time will often be puz-zled by them. And it is a pity that thepassages of classical writers imitated bythese late poets have been so very rarelynoted. Buecheler supplies far more help ofthe kind. The text of the verses • is on thewhole very corrupt, and there is still a widefield for criticism. I append comments ona few passages, quoting the poems by thenumbers which Riese gives them.11, 11. 64, 5. The poet compares Hippo-damia, who is standing close by her fatherand Felops, to a precious stone set in gold :qualis gemma micat, fuluum quae diuiditaurum,inter utramque uiam talem se laeta ferebat.The words utramque uiam must surelyhave been corrupted from utrumque uirum.The codex Salmasianus indeed gives utrum-que.21,11. 204,210:hoc sapiens Furia, Venus inuida, Iunocruentaquod furor exposcit demons, quod praeliasaeua.The whole piece is curious; it is a versifi-cation of a rhetorical controversy, of thekind with which we are familiar from therhetorician Seneca and the pseudo-Quinti-lian. In the lines quoted hoc and quodrefer to aurum. In the first of the twolines I would read saeuiens for sapiens andin the second demensque in praelia saeuit.The writer is much given to repeating him-self, and 1. 210 echoed 1. 204. As to thescansion of saeuiens as a spondee, it hardlycalls for illustration in so late a writer.But I would refer to Lucretius 5,396, a linewhich both in A and in B runs thus:ignis enim superauit et ambens multa per-ussit;but B has the correction lambens, whichLachmann adopted, changing superauit toavailable at https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009840X00039354Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. University of Basel Library, on 10 Jul 2017 at 16:45:34, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use,

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