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Martial's Kalendae Nataliciae

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Hans Lucas
Affiliation:
Berlin-Charlottenburg

Extract

Histories of Roman literature state under Martial that his birthday was on ist March.1 Martial repeatedly says so himself. But these statements must now be questioned, since they harbour a peculiar difficulty, perhaps even a problem, whose solution is here attempted.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1938

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References

page 5 note 1 E.g. Teuffel II7. 310; Schanz–Hosius II2. 546 not. 2.

page 5 note 2 Compare also X 92. 10.

page 6 note 1 Compare Ovid, , Remed. am. 561. sqqGoogle Scholar. Fast. 3. 99 sqq.

page 6 note 2 Gell. II 24, particularly para. 14: Daremberg et Sagl. III 2, 1141, 1151.