P. Rutilii Lupi De Figuris Sententiarum et Elocutionis: Edited with Prolegomena and Commentary by E. Brooks 9004014748, 9789004014749

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P. RUTILII LUPI DE FIGURIS SENTENTIARUM ET ELOCUTIONIS

MNEMOSYNE BIBLIOTHECA CLASSICA BATAVA

COLLEGERUNT W. DEN BOER • W.

J.

VERDENIUS

•

R. E. H. WESTEN DO RP BOERMA

BIBLIOTHECAE FASCICULOS EDENDOS CURAVIT W.

J.

VERDENIUS, HOMERUSLAAN 53, ZEIST

SUPPLEMENTUM UNDECIMUM EDWARD BROOKS, Jr. P. RUTILII LUPI

DE FIGURIS SENTENTIARUM ET ELOCUTIONIS

LUGDUNI BATAVORUM E.

J.

BRILL 1970

P. RUTILII LUPI

DE FIGURIS SENTENTIARUM ET ELOCUTIONIS EDITED WITH PROLEGOMENA AND COMMENTARY

BY

EDWARD BROOKS,

LEIDEN - E.

Jr.

J. BRILL- 1970

Copyright 1970 by E.

J. Brill, Leiden, Netherlands

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or translated in any form, by print, photoprint, microfilm, microfiche o, any other means without written permission from the publisher PRINTED IN THE NETHERLANDS

CONTENTS Prolegomena . . . . . I. The importance of figures in the Roman rhetorical tradition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . II. Date and authorship of the De figuris sententiarum et elocutionis . . . . . . . III. The manuscripts and editions . . IV. Conspectus of variant readings . V. Special studies and commentaries

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Text with Testimonia and Critical Apparatus

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Preliminary Note

3

Sigla codicum

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Commentary

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Appendices .

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I. The title of the treatise II. Register of the Rutilian figures and their designations in other treatises III. A celebrated lacuna

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Index Bibliographicus .

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PREFACE This edition of the De figuris sententiarum et elocutionis is an abridgment of the Ph.D. thesis I submitted to the University of Minnesota in 1968. While not entirely rewritten, the work has been extensively revised. It is intended to bring Rutilian scholarship up to date, to remedy errors and deficiencies that mar the existing editions of the treatise, and to resolve some of the problems (in the main, philological) that have persisted since the last edition of Rutilius over a century ago. I have refrained from including in my commentary a detailed discussion of the date and authorship of the treatise, as this ground has been adequately covered by K. Miinscher's Pauly-Wissowa article (RE vol. XIV, s.v. Gorgias). Nor have I given more than cursory attention to the possibility of restoring to its original form the text of a work which in its surviving form is manifestly incomplete. This is a problem which a number of scholars have investigated: to do justice to the earliest, and most ambitious, attemptGustav Dzialas'-would in itself require a lengthy treatment which would upset the proportions of this book if it were included. For the same reason, I have felt it inappropriate to examine at length the word Jigura, and such related terms as axrjµoc, exornatio, lumen, forma, formae et lumina orationis, and so on. Other interesting problems, e.g., the distinction between the