A. S. Vanyukov Can Latin tempus fall in? Some remarks on the Cius inscription (CIL III 7494 = ILS 770) and uses of the verb ingruo (pp. 141–150)

Author

A. S. Vanyukov (Russian State University for the Humanities)

Pages\n 141–150

Summary\n

The inscription from Cius deals with events of Valens’ first Gothic war (367–9). In the second half of the 19th century, it became the topic of a serious discussion among scholars. The discussion is not over yet. As only half of the text survived, a number of hypotheses were put forward to reconstruct the lost part. The reconstruction of the lost part proposed by Theodor Mommsen in 1882 was generally accepted, though some details of Mommsen’s reconstruction were criticized and corrected. The paper deals with the third line of Mommsen’s reconstruction: ingruente item in victorias illa]s tempore feliciter quinqennaliorum. More than 100 instances of the use of the verb ingruo in Latin texts have been analyzed. On the evidence of our data Mommsen’s reconstruction should be called into question: (a) ingruo does not mean ‘fall on’(‘occur at a specified time’); (b) if ingruo is followed by preposition in with the accusative, the word used as the subject designates some kind of a disaster, and when used as an object it means somebody or something who has fallen victim to something. (e.g. pestilentia, quae priore anno in boues ingruerat).

Keywords\n

Athanarichus; Cius; Goths; limes; Scythia Minor; quinquennalia; Valens; verbal government; ingruo; epigraphy; Chastagnol; Mommsen.

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