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Circa or Citra? on Suetonius, Nero 15.2

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

C. F. Konrad
C. F. Konrad
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University of Colorado at Boulder
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Recently in this journal, R. Shaw-Smith suggested reading ‘citra Kal. Ian.’: ‘circa, implying that the consul died either before or after 1st January, will not do.’ Will the example of citra at Aug. 43.4, adduced by Shaw-Smith (and the OLD [s.v. ‘citra’ 3)] in support of the meaning ‘(shortly) before’?

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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 38 , Issue 2 , December 1988 , pp. 569 - 570
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1988

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References

1 CQ 37 (1987), 535Google Scholar.

2 See Baumgarten-Crusius, W., C. Suetoni Tranquilli opera, iii (Torino, 1826), p. 110Google Scholar; Shuckburgh, E. S., C. Suetoni Tranquilli Divus Augustus (Cambridge, 1896), p. 53Google Scholar; and the OLD s.v. ‘citra’ 4–7.

3 Cf. Shuckburgh, , p. 96: ‘though not during the daysfixedfor a spectacle’Google Scholar, and Baumgarten-Crusius, , p. 110: ‘praeter sp. dies, ubi illi nondum adessent’Google Scholar. See also Gell. 12.13.20, ‘nam citra quod est, id extra est’.

4 See Howard, A. A. and Jackson, C. N., Index verborum C. Suetoni Tranquilli (Cambridge, Mass., 1922), p. 41CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

5 Cf. Caesar's, horti ‘circa Tiberim’ (DJ 83. 2)Google Scholar, and Aug. 17.3, ‘circa montes Ceraunios utrubique parte liburnicarum demersa’: the rocks, being close to the shore, could be only on one,. side of the ships. For the site of the ‘naumachia Augusti’, we have the Princeps' own account: ‘navalis proeli spectaculum populo dedi trans Tiberim, in quo loco nunc nemus est Caesarum’, (Res gestae 23).