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MARTIAL, BOOK IV MNEMOSYNE BIBLIOTHECA CLASSICA BATAVA COLLEGERUNT H. PINKSTER •H.S. VERSNEL I.J.F. DE JONG •P.H. SCHRIJVERS BIBLIOTHECAE FASCICULOS EDENDOS CURAVIT H. PINKSTER, KLASSIEK SEMINARIUM, SPUISTRAAT 134, AMSTERDAM SUPPLEMENTUM DUCENTESIMUM SEPTUAGESIMUM OCTAVUM ROSARIO MORENO SOLDEVILA MARTIAL, BOOK IV MARTIAL, BOOK IV A COMMENTARY BY ROSARIO MORENO SOLDEVILA LEIDEN•BOSTON 2006 This book is printed on acid-free paper. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A C.I.P. record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. ISSN 0169-8958 ISBN-13:978-90-04-15192-5 ISBN-10:90-04-15192-3 © Copyright 2006 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Hotei Publishing, IDC Publishers, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers and VSP. All rights reserved. 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Fees are subject to change. printed in the netherlands I, fuge; sed poteras tutior esse domi (Martial 1.3.12) CONTENTS Foreword and acknowledgements .............................................. ix Introduction ................................................................................ 1 The dating of book IV .......................................................... 1 Themes and topics ................................................................ 2 The arrangement of the epigrams in book IV .................... 11 The form of the epigrams: structure, language, metrics .... 20 The manuscript transmission of Martial: some issues relating to book IV ............................................................ 22 This commentary .................................................................... 24 Text and Translation ................................................................ 31 Commentary ................................................................................ 93 Bibliography ................................................................................ 545 Indices General Index ........................................................................ 577 Index Nominum .................................................................... 581 Index Verborum .................................................................... 587 Index Locorum ...................................................................... 594 FOREWORD AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The last three decades bear witness to significant progress in Martial research: almost all of his books of epigrams have been commented on: book I (Citroni, 1975; Howell, 1980); book II (Williams, 2004), book V (Howell, 1985; and, partially, Canobbio, 2002); book VI (Grewing, 1997); book VII (Galán Vioque, 2002); book VIII (Schöffel, 2003); book IX (Henriksén, 1998–1999); book XI (Kay, 1985); and the Xenia and the Apophoreta (Leary, 2001; 1996). On the remaining books there are a number of unpublished dissertations. To this must be added the recent commentary by L. and P. Watson on select epigrams (2003). Furthermore, a great many recent studies have cast new light on diverse aspects of his work and personality, in the form of articles, monographic studies or compendia, such as Grewing’s (1998) or the latest collection published by the Government of Aragón in commemoration of the 19th centenary of Martial’s death (2004). However, a commentary on Martial’s book IV was called for. This book first took form as a Ph.D. thesis submitted at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide (Sevilla) in November, 2003. I am obliged to the members of the examination board, my greatest debt being to my mentors, Francisco Socas Gavilán and Juan Fernández Valverde. I was able to bring this project to completion thanks to a research scholarship from the Spanish Ministry of Education. This also allowed me to spend some months at Harvard University, where I was warmly received by the Department of the Classics, especially by Kathleen Coleman, and at the University of London, where I enjoyed the atmosphere and took advantage of the resources of the Institute of Classical Studies. My thanks are also due to Peter Howell, who kindly read the Spanish manuscript and made invaluable suggestions and remarks; to my friends and colleagues Ana Pérez Vega and Juan Martos, from the Universidad de Sevilla, for all their assistance and encouragement, as well as Guillermo Galán, from the Universidad de Huelva, and Ana Prados, librarian of the Departamento de Filo- logía griega y latina of the Universidad de Sevilla; and especially to Daniel Nisa and Jan Zoltowski for having painstakingly corrected the English version. In the later stages of the work the anonymous referee made numerous helpful remarks and corrections, for which
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