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NISBET ON MARTIAL BOOK 12: TWO NOTES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 July 2022

T.J. Leary
T.J. Leary*
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Abstract

These notes present two, hitherto largely unnoticed, conjectures by Professor R.G.M. Nisbet, relating to Martial Book 12.

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MartialepigramNisbettextual criticismconjectures
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Shorter Notes
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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 72 , Issue 1 , May 2022 , pp. 450 - 452
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Classical Association

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1 See M.N.R. Bowie, ‘Martial Book XII – a commentary’ (Diss., University of Oxford, 1988). I am very grateful to the Revd Dr Michael Bowie for his ready agreement that these conjectures should be more widely shared and for his willingness in allowing me to present them. Of course, he is in no way responsible for the manner in which I have done so, or any mistakes I have made or infelicities I have admitted in the process.

Nisbet's British Academy Memoir, by S.J. Harrison, makes regular reference to his interest in textual criticism: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publishing/memoirs/13/nisbet-robin-george-murdoch-1925-2013/ (accessed 7 January 2021). Note also M. Winterbottom's foreword to Harrison, S.J. (ed.), R.G.M. Nisbet: Collected Papers on Latin Literature (Oxford, 1995), viiGoogle Scholar, where Nisbet's practice is related to that of Housman, described in the essay ‘Housman's Juvenal’ in the same volume, at 272–92; a version of this paper also appears in Butterfield, D. and Stray, C. (edd.), A.E. Housman: Classical Scholar (London, 2009), 45–63Google Scholar. Nisbet gives an account of his own theories and practice in making conjectures in his essay on ‘How textual conjectures are made’ in Harrison, S.J. (ed.), R.G.M. Nisbet: Collected Papers on Latin Literature (Oxford, 1995), 338–61Google Scholar.

2 Mart. 8.71.8 refers to a bare half-pound of silver in the form of a cup which has been sent as a meagre present.

3 McKeown, J.C., Ovid Amores. Text, Prolegomena and Commentary. Volume II. A Commentary on Book One (Leeds, 1989)Google Scholar.

4 Kay, N.M., Martial Book XI. A Commentary (London, 1985)Google Scholar.

5 Housman, A.E., ‘Martial XII.59.9’, CR 40 (1926), 19Google Scholar = Diggle, J. and Goodyear, F.R.D. (edd.), The Classical Papers of A.E. Housman (Cambridge, 1972), 3.1105Google Scholar.

6 Friedlaender, L., M. Valerii Martialis Epigrammaton libri (Leipzig, 1886)Google Scholar. Cf. Kay (n. 4), on Mart. 11.6.13 quindecim and G. Galán Vioque (transl. J.J. Zoltowski), Martial, Book VII. A Commentary (Leiden / Boston / Köln, 2002), on Mart. 7.10.15 quindecies.

7 Cf. Bowie (n. 1), ad loc. For tu meaning ‘one’, cf. e.g. Catull. 22.9 haec cum legas tu (‘when one reads these things’), where its meaning is confirmed by its redundancy after the indefinite subjunctive legas in a temporal clause (cf. Fordyce, C.J., Catullus. A Commentary [Oxford, 1961]Google Scholar, ad loc.).

8 This is also the text printed in Soldevila, R. Moreno, Fernández, J. and Cartelle, E. Montero, Marco Valerio Marcial, Epigramas (Madrid, 2005), 2.194Google Scholar.

9 Housman, A.E., ‘Heraeus’ Martial’, CR 39 (1925), 199–203Google Scholar, at 200–1 = Diggle and Goodyear (n. 5), 3.1099–104, at 3.1100–1.