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Horace and the Sibyl (Epode 16.2)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

C. W. MacLeod
C. W. MacLeod
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Christ Church, Oxford
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It seems clear that Virgil, Horace, and Tibullus knew, if not the third Sibylline Oracle itself, prophecies like it. An unnoticed parallel between that work and Horace may confirm this conclusion and afford a small insight into the Latin poet's art.

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Shorter Notes
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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , May 1979 , pp. 220 - 221
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1979

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References

page 220 note 1 See recently Ableitinger-Grünberger, D., Derjunge Horaz und die Politik (Heidelberg, 1972), pp.72–4Google Scholar; Horsfall, N., Prudentia 8 (1976), 85–7Google Scholar; Quesnay, I.M.Le M.Du, Papers of the Liverpool Latin Seminar (Liverpool, 1976), pp.75–81.Google Scholar

page 220 note 2 See first Lycophron, , Alex. 1233Google Scholar; another clear example in Augustan poetry is Prop. 4.10.17, where Romulus is called ‘urbis()virtutisque () parens’’. In general, see Birt, Th., De Romae urbis nomine she de robore Romano (Marburg, 1887), pp.5–11.Google Scholar

page 220 note 3 As it clearly is at 8.143–5; 12.67; 13.81;14.40.

page 220 note 4 La Troisième Sibylle (Paris, 1970), p.309.Google Scholar

page 220 note 5 For examples of this meaning in later Greek, see, besides LSJ, Or. Sib. Praef. p.4 1.87 Geffcken; Joseph., , Ant. 7.239Google Scholar; Mayer, G., Index Philoneus, s.v.; Origen, De orat. 24.3.Google Scholar

page 220 note 6 Sibyllinische Weissagungen (Munich, 1951), p.89.Google Scholar

page 221 note 1 Which poem came first is still under discussion: for references, see Ableitinger-Grünberger, , op. cit., p.66 n.l.Google Scholar

page 221 note 2 Cf. Cic. De rep. 5.1; Floras 3.12.6; Lucan 1.70–2; Aug. CD. 18.45 (lines 61–4). Also comparable in various ways are Hdt. 7.49:8.16.2 (cf. Thuc. 1.69.5; 6.33.5); Thuc. 6.18.6; Hor. Od. 3.4.65; Prop. 3.13.60. See also Luce, T.J., Livy (Princeton, 1977), p.288.Google Scholar

I am indebted to Dr. N. Horsfall for valuable help in the preparation of this note.