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  • CICERO BELTS ARATUS: THE BILINGUAL ACROSTIC AT ARATEA 317–20

  • Evelyn Patrick Rick
  • Journal:
    The Classical Quarterly / Volume 69 / Issue 1 / May 2019
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    21 March 2019, pp. 222-228
    Print publication:
    May 2019

  • That Cicero as a young didactic poet embraced the traditions of Hellenistic hexameter poetry is well recognized. Those traditions encompass various forms of wordplay, one of which is the acrostic. Cicero's engagement with this tradition, in the form of an unusual Greek-Latin acrostic at Aratea 317–20, prompts inquiry regarding both the use of the acrostic technique as textual commentary and Cicero's lifelong concerns regarding translation.

  • MUTILATING DEMIPHO IN PLAUTUS’ MERCATOR

  • Shawn O'bryhim
  • Journal:
    The Classical Quarterly / Volume 69 / Issue 1 / May 2019
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    11 March 2019, pp. 453-455
    Print publication:
    May 2019

  • In Plautus’ Mercator, the senex amator Demipho lusts after the slave girl Pasicompsa, who is the lover of his son Charinus. Demipho knows nothing about their relationship. He believes that Charinus bought Pasicompsa as a present for his mother while he was trading on Rhodes. In an attempt to gain access to her, Demipho enlists the aid of his elderly neighbour, Lysimachus, who taunts him for his infatuation with such a young woman. Eager to persuade Lysimachus that he is truly in love, Demipho offers to let him cut off his head, finger, ear, nose or lip, or even kill him with love if he is lying about his feelings (308–10):

        decide collum stanti si falsum loquor;
        uel, ut scias me amare, cape cultrum, [ac] seca
        digitum uel aurem uel tu nasum uel labrum:
        si mouero me seu secari sensero,
        Lysimache, auctor sum ut me amando enices.
    This hitherto unrecognized list of penalties for adultery not only sheds light on the nature of Charinus’ relationship with Pasicompsa, but also emphasizes the inappropriateness of Demipho's desire for her.

Population and Economy in Classical Athens
  • Ben Akrigg
  • Published online:
    08 March 2019
    Print publication:
    28 March 2019
  • This is the first comprehensive account of the population of classical Athens for almost a century. The methodology of earlier scholars has been criticised in general terms but their conclusions have not been seriously challenged. Ben Akrigg reviews and assesses those methodologies and conclusions for the first time and thereby sets the historical demography of Athens on a firm footing. The main focus is on the economic impact of that demography, but new conclusions are presented which have profound implications for our understanding of Athenian society and culture. The book establishes that the Athenian population grew very large in the fifth century BC, before falling dramatically in the final three decades of that century. These changes had important immediate consequences but the city of the fourth century was shaped in fundamental ways by the demographic upheavals of its past.

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