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A Crux Criticorum (et interpretum) In Seneca the Elder's Controversiae (2. 4. 12)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 February 2009
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The argumentum of contr. 2. 4 reads as follows (quoted from my own provisional text, which I hope will be published in some years):
Abdicavit quidam filium. Abdicatus se contulit ad meretricem. Ex ilia sustulit filium. Aeger ad patrem misit; cum venisset, commendavit ei filium suum et decessit. Adoptavit puerum <pater>. Ab altero [pater] filio accusatur dementiae.
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1 Sénèque le rhèteur, controverses et suasoires (Paris, 1902Google Scholar; new edition Paris, 1932); The Elder Seneca, Declamations (Loeb, 1976)Google Scholar.
2 In accusing his father of dementia, the son would blame his disinherited and departed brother for his immoral life in a brothel and question whether the grandson was really the son of his brother, at the same time sneering at his mother, the meretrix; cp. §5 or 10.
3 Having deprived aliquid of imbecilli, both Bornecque and Winterbottom find themselves forced to add something of their own, but neither addition suits the context very well.
4 L. Annaei Senecae Oratorum et rhetorum sententiae divisiones colores (Vienna 1887, Hildesheim, 1963)Google Scholar.