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- Latin Texts on Papyrus and the Study of Classics
- Latin Texts on Papyrus and the Study of Classics
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Editor’s Note
- Abbreviations
- Latin Texts on Papyrus: A Project, Its Corpus, and the Future of Research
- Part I Philological and Literary Insights
- 1 The Papyri of Terence and the Latin Grammatical Tradition
- 2 Latin Gnomic Literature in Light of P.Mich. VII 430 (= CLTP IB.20)
- 3 Medical or Culinary Recipes?
- 4 P.Hamb. II 167 Recto: Drama (in Prose?)*
- 5 The Latin Papyri from the Herculaneum Library
- 6 Editing the Carmen De bello Aegyptiaco for CLTP
- 7 Virgilian Centos and Papyri Vergilianae
- 8 ‘Varus, Give Me Back My … Money!’ Marginal Notes on the Hadrianus
- Part II Philological and Linguistic Insights
- Part III Palaeographic Insights
- Part IV Juridical and Historical Insights
- Bibliography
- Book part
2 - Latin Gnomic Literature in Light of P.Mich. VII 430 (= CLTP IB.20)
from Part I - Philological and Literary Insights
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Book contents
- Latin Texts on Papyrus and the Study of Classics
- Latin Texts on Papyrus and the Study of Classics
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Editor’s Note
- Abbreviations
- Latin Texts on Papyrus: A Project, Its Corpus, and the Future of Research
- Part I Philological and Literary Insights
- 1 The Papyri of Terence and the Latin Grammatical Tradition
- 2 Latin Gnomic Literature in Light of P.Mich. VII 430 (= CLTP IB.20)
- 3 Medical or Culinary Recipes?
- 4 P.Hamb. II 167 Recto: Drama (in Prose?)*
- 5 The Latin Papyri from the Herculaneum Library
- 6 Editing the Carmen De bello Aegyptiaco for CLTP
- 7 Virgilian Centos and Papyri Vergilianae
- 8 ‘Varus, Give Me Back My … Money!’ Marginal Notes on the Hadrianus
- Part II Philological and Linguistic Insights
- Part III Palaeographic Insights
- Part IV Juridical and Historical Insights
- Bibliography
- Book part
Summary
One of the results of the PLATINUM Project was a re-evaluation of P.Mich. VII 430, a document dating to shortly before 115/116 CE, described by previous editors as ‘a collection of brief sayings’. Several of the textual remains are consistent with trochaic septenarii, a metre found in early Latin drama and significantly within the tradition of Latin verse maxims attributed to the late Republican poet Publilius the Syrian. This chapter discusses the content of the collection and compares it with other Latin gnomic collections that survive in medieval transmission, including Publilius, and several ancient gnomic collections ascribed to Seneca, Varro, and ‘Caecilius Balbus’.
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