G gives us something new; this is not another book of the Legacy" type, but a serious and in many ways successful attempt to get at the back of the Greek mind. The treatment is fresh and original. R. W. Livingstone has compiled a sequel to the Pageant of Greece, embodying Greek views of life in the Roman World (300 B.C.-200 A.D.), and including many lesser stars," from Epicurus to Lucian. 1 Greek and Roman Weather Lore, by E. S. McCartney, gives the results of extensive study of ancient authorities. 2 The Poems of A. W. Mair3 now collected and published contain some original pieces and some translations. Clementine is a fine piece of foolery. It is regrettable that the volume contains no example of Professor Mair's skill in composing Greek Lyrics. J. F. DOBSON. 1 The Mission of Greece: Oxford: Univ. Press, 1928. 2 Class. Weekly, 1928, Nos. 588-9. 3 Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1929. General. II LATIN LITERATURE Latin literature is the richer now for P. Oxy. 2088, a fragment dealing with Servius Tullius and mentioned last year in the chapter of Y.W. dealing with papyri (p. 74 f). M. A. Levi, who proposes some supplements, is inclined to support Stuart Jones in thinking that it may come from Fenestella. 1 Passing to familiar continuations, we have in the newest part of Pauly-Wissowa articles on Plautus (s. v. Maccius; Sonnenburg), Macrobius (Wessner), 2 and Manilius (van Wageningen), and in the last volumes of Bursian reports on Pliny (221, I ff; М. Schuster), Christian Latin poets (ib., 65 ff; J. Martin), and rhetorical literature (222, 1 ff; G. Lehnert). As works of general interest we may mention O. Weinreich, Gebet und Wunder, a thorough study, first of the prayer in Terence Andria, 232 f, and the analogies for its egoism in ἀποπομπαί (such as Horace, Odes I., 21, 15 ff), and in Virg. Priap, iii., 17 ff, coming to the conclusion that the prayer is Roman and covers the combination of the drunken old woman of the Περινθία with the other of the ̓Ανδρία, second of the miraculous openings of door, with much incidental light on passages of Latin literature, as, for instance, Aen. vi., 51, and the opening of the Curculic, and an abundance of acute observations on points of style and matter which deserve the careful attention of students of ancient literature as well as of students of ancient belief, 1 and R. Ullmann, La technique des discours dans Salluste Tite Live et Tacite. 2 Gnomon contains, as usual, a number of admirable and instructive reviews. 1 Riv. Fil., lvi., 511 ff; cf. Castiglioni, Boll. fil. class, xxxv., 212. * The discussion of Sat., i, 17-23 (col. 194 ff) is excellent. Series. re The Velleius Paterculus of Ellis, with its full apparatus, has now been included in the Oxford collection. 3 The Budé series has produced Pliny, Epp. VII.-IX. (A. M. Guillemin) and Ovid, Heroides (Bornecque-Prévost); the Teubner series a new edition of Dombart's St. Augustine, Ciuitas dei I.-XIII., by A. Kalb (with new manuscript information); the Loeb Library Statius (J. H. Mozley : quite useful) and Lucan (J. D. Duff: admirable translation); the Fundació Bernat Metge Varro De rustica (S. Galmes: with some new suggestions), Seneca Epp. (2 volumes: C. Cardo, who attaches much importance to Beltrami's Quirinianus), and a second volume of Ausonius (C. Balcells, C. Riba, A. Navarro), the Paravia Corpus Ovid Fasti (Landi: good), Tibullus (F. Calonghi : rests on substantial study of the MSS 4), and the Culex and Ciris (in one volume: G. Curcio). To the Patristic Studies of the Catholic University of America there has been added S. Ambrosii De Helia et ieiunio, with introduction, translation and commentary by M. J. A. Buck, an interesting and useful work. 5 Other Editions and Studies. For E. Fränkel's important Iktus und Akzent im lateinischen Sprechvers 1 I may refer to E. A. Sonnenschein's valuable and suggestive discussion.2 The chief other publication affecting Plautus is an elaborate edition of the Rudens by Fr. Marx, giving in addition to the commentary a discussion of the origin of the cantica with a full collection of lyrical fragments in the Greek New Comedy and the conclusion that Plautus found models enough in it. 3 1 In Genethliakon Wilhelm Schmid, pp. 169-464, and also sold separately (Kohlhammer: Stuttgart: 1929: 22m.). A propos of strix 1222 [=178], can we explain Ausonius Technopaegnion, 10, 26, p. 164, Peiper, nota Caledoniis nuribus muliebre secus strix from the habit of sending the strix to the ends of the earth, as, for instance, Britain ? 2 Skrifter, Ak. Oslo, 1927, ii.; pp. 251; Dybwad : Oslo. Cf. Phil. Woch., 1929, 533 ff. 3 Pp. xxiv. +143; 1928; 5s. * Cf. F. Levy, Phil. Woch., 1928, 1,092 ff. * Vol. xix., pp. xv.+233; Washington; 1929. W. Beare's paper on the relation of Plautus to his public is thoroughly sensible. 4 From St. Andrews we have J. D. Craig's Ancient Editions of Terence, a careful and interesting study urging that the text represented by the codex Bembinus was current in the fourth and fifth centuries and that the minuscule type of text came into being about the end of the fifth century, 5 and J. T. Allardice's Syntax of Terence, a very useful classification and conspectus of the dramatist's usage. 6 F. Perry's translation of the Phormio is pleasant. Tenney Frank argues that Terence showed originality in breaking away from the tradition of having an explanatory prologue and in obtaining an effect of suspense. 8 For Catullus it has been a fortunate year. The veteran scholar Vitelli has published a papyrus of the Κόμη of Callimachus, giving ten nearly complete lines and fragments of ten others. They correspond to lines 45-64 of the adaptation by Catullus, and enable us to see how closely Catullus followed his original, couplet corresponding to couplet, and where he divagated; on these points 25m. 1 With an appendix by A. Thierfelder. Weidmann; 1928; pp.425; 2 C.Q., 1929, 80 ff. 3 Abh. sächs. Ges. Wiss., xxxviii., 5; pp. iv. +322; 20m. 10. 4 C.R., 1928, 106 ff. 5 St. Andrews University Publications, xxvi.; pp. 134; 1929; Milford; 3s. 6d. * Ib., xxvii. pp. 1523 1929; 3s. 6d. 7 Oxf. Univ. Pr.; pp. 58; 1929; 3s. 6d. 8 A.J.P., xlix, 309 ff. • Studi Ital., N.S., vii., 1 ff. |