E. V. Antonets. Corpus poeticum Caesarianum: some comments (pp. 26–40)

Author

E. V. Antonets (Lomonosov Moscow State University)

Keywords\n Caesar, Cicero, Terence, poetry

Pages\n 26–40

Summary\n

In the ‘Life of Terentius’ by Suetonius prefixed to commentary of Donatus, there are two little poems about Terence by Cicero and Caesar. Some scholars propose dropping the words Item C. Caesar as an intrusion from a marginal gloss, thus gaining a verb for Cicero’s poem and wiping out the whole surviving corpus of Caesar’s poetry. With an analysis of style and phraseology of both poems we offer linguistic arguments for Caesar’s authorship. We also argue against the hypothesis, that these two poems are a school exercise in verse composition on a restricted topic, given to Cicero and Caesar by their schoolmaster M. Antonius Gnipho.

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