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Horace, Odes i 12.33-6: Some Final Remarks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 May 2015

H.D. Jocelyn
H.D. Jocelyn*
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University of Manchester
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A. Treloar remains convinced (Antichthon vi [1972], 60-62) that he understands why the younger M. Porcius Cato should be placed after Romulus, Numa and ‘Tarquinius’ — and before M. Atilius Regulus, M. Aemilius Scaurus, L. Aemilius Paullus, C. Fabricius Luscinus, M’ Curius Dentatus, M. Furius Camillus, M. Claudius Marcellus and C. Iulius Caesar in a list of Roman men of state and why a poem which fawns upon C. Iulius Caesar Octavianus should mention Cato in an honorific context. His original contentions (Antichthon iii [1969], 45-51) were essentially that Horace thought of Cato as a heros like Hercules, Castor, Pollux, Romulus-Quirinus, Numa and L. Tarquinius Collatinus rather than as a uir like Regulus and the rest and that he expressed such a thought because he ‘never abandoned his loyalty to the lost cause for which he fought in his youth’.

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Antichthon , Volume 7 , 1973 , pp. 62 - 64
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Copyright © Australasian Society for Classical Studies 1973

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1 It is also instructive to compare Carm, i 12.49-60 with what the young Cicero said about Jupiter and the dictator Sulla (S. Rose. 131 ).

2 See now alsoSyndikus, H.P., Die Lyrik des Horaz, Vol. 1 (Darmstadt, 1972), pp. 135 ff.Google Scholar

3 Where Horace has θεολογία in mind he calls him Bacchus (Carm. iii 3.13).

4 The notion that the founder of the Roman state became a god like Ηρακλής and certain others of the generation of ήρωες appears at Carm. iii 3.15 and here Horace calls him Quirinus.

5 Pindar refers to Κάστωρ as a ήρως as well as to Ηρακλής (Isthm. 1.17).

6 Some ancients saw this to be one of the laws of the genre of epinician lyric; cf. Schol. Pind. Ol. 2.1b (I p. 59.17 Drachmann) τυποί δέ ó Πίνδαρος ὄτι δεȋ καθ' ἕκαοτον έπινίκιον ύμνεȋν θεόν, ήρωα, άνδρα.