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Some Other Explanations of Martial
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 February 2009
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Mr. Alan Ker in Class. Quart., vol. xliv, 1950, pp. 12–24, discusses a number of Martial passages which appear to him to be in need of elucidation or textual amendment. That some of these passages require elucidation seems indeed clear, but few require any treatment of the kind prescribed by Mr. Ker. In so many cases does he seem to me needlessly to alter the epigrammatist's carefully chosen words and ascribe to him others which he would never have used that it seems but proper to call attention to some instances. The following notes are intended to show that Martial was a more able writer and the transmitters of his work more competent than Mr. Ker's paper would suggest; the conclusions accord with Heraeus' observation (p. vii) ‘coniecturis omnino non multum loci est in Martiale, minimum, ubi αβγ conspirant’.
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page 28 note 2 Cf. 11. 61. 4 ‘(obscena Leda) fornicem ff., cludit.’
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page 29 note 1 Fish is sometimes cooked wrapped in paper at the present day both in this country and elsewhere. Cf. Mrs. Beeton s. Red mullet and Trout.
page 29 note 2 scrinia are not indeed necessarily book-boxes; scrinium unguentorum in Plin. Nat. 7. 29. 108 and 13. 1. 3 suggests that they may be receptaclesfor anything one cares to put in them.
page 30 note 1 The passage is wrongly noted in the Thes. s.v. 2004. 75 under the substantival use = socius, sodalis, etc.; it is clear that compare corresponds to similem.
page 30 note 2 similis is used precisely as in 12. 31. 6 ‘gerit similes candida turris aues’, where similes can only mean that the birds are candidae like the turris (not ‘like to one another’, as K. suggests).
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page 30 note 4 Mayor on Juv. loc. cit. adds Hieron. Epist. 133. 13. 3 ‘unum, aut ut multum, tres homunculos’ and Leo Serm. 16. 4 ‘puella… ut multum decennis’.
page 31 note 1 terque quaterque would suggest frequency; cf. Virg. Aen. 1. 94 ‘o terque quaterque beati’.
page 31 note 2 Orig. 18. 7. 4 (referred to by Heraeus); he does not quote M.'s precise words and has expectantque leones.