Serviani in Vergili Aeneidos libros IX-XII commentarii

633 Pages·2018·4.659 MB·Latin, English

by  Maurus Honoratus Servius, Robert A Kaster, Charles Edward Murgia

Serviani in Vergili Aeneidos libros
IX–XII commentarii
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Serviani in Vergili Aeneidos libros IX–XII commentarii, number 1, vol. V
CHARLES E. MURGIA AND ROBERT A. KASTER
Serviani in Vergili Aeneidos libros III–V commentarii, number 1, vol. III
A. F. STOCKER AND A. H. TRAVIS
Serviani in Vergili Aeneidos libros I–II commentarii, number 1, vol. II
E. K. RAND, J. J. SAVAGE, H. T. SMITH, G. B. WALDROP,
J. P. ELDER, B. M. PEEBLES, AND A. F. STOCKER
Serviani in Vergili Aeneidos libros
IX–XII commentarii
Edited by
CHARLES E. MURGIA (†)
Completed and prepared for publication by
ROBERT A. KASTER
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Title: Serviani in Vergili Aeneidos libros IX–XII commentarii / edited by
Charles E. Murgia; completed and prepared for publication by Robert A. Kaster.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword vii
Preface xi
Bibliography xxxix
Abbreviations xliii
Table of Authors and Works xlv
Sigla 1
Aeneid 9 5
Aeneid 10 113
Aeneid 11 256
Aeneid 12 405
Appendix A: Scholia Adespota Codicvm Tv 517
Appendix B: On Ramires’ Family α 522
Index Locorum 527
Index Nominum 543

FOR EWOR D
When Charles E. Murgia (hereafter CEM) died in February 2013, the files that
he had gathered while preparing his edition of Servius’ commentary on Aeneid 9–12
ran to many thousands of pages. Meticulously reviewed and sifted by Donald
Mastronarde, as CEM’s scholarly executor, these materials included essentially com-
plete and publishable drafts of the Latin text and—in line with the format of previ-
ous volumes of the “APA / Harvard Servius”—both an upper and a lower critical
apparatus.1 These drafts embodied the judgments that CEM had formed over the
course of four decades, and I have made no substantive changes.2 The core of this
edition is thus entirely CEM’s own, as is the editorial “ego” that speaks throughout
the critical apparatus.
There were, however, two crucial parts of the project that were only partially
drafted, and several peripheral pieces that were not drafted at all: my work since June
2015 has aimed to provide what was lacking. I can describe here what those parts
and pieces were.
Testimonial apparatus
Bearing in mind the second part of Eduard Fraenkel’s famous review of Rand et al.
1946 (Fraenkel 1949), CEM and at least twelve graduate assistants had gathered the
data for an extensive apparatus fontium et testium intended to stand between the text
and the critical apparatus. These data resided on thousands of 5 × 8 cards but had
not yet been fully winnowed and compiled in electronic files at the time of CEM’s
death. While a draft existed for all of Aeneid 10, the drafts of the remaining books
were only partial (A. 9.1–212, 11.1–243, 12.1–299), and it was my task to complete
the winnowing and compiling. This task was made more challenging by the fact that
at some point before the 5 × 8 cards were shipped to Princeton from Berkeley, the
cards for Aeneid 11.244–416 and 652–915 and all the cards for Aeneid 12 went missing.
1 Those previous volumes—Rand et al. 1946 (Aeneid 1–2) and Smith et al. 1965 (Aeneid 3–5)—were
numbers 2 and 3 of what was conceived as a five-volume set, of which CEM’s was to be the last. Volume 1, in-
tended to include the commentaries on the Eclogues and Georgics, was abandoned after the death of its editor,
G. P. Goold, in 2001; volume 4 (Aeneid 6–8) was entrusted to an editorial team that now comprises E. Christian
Kopff, Dirk Obbink, and James Brusuelas, after its editor, P. K. Marshall, died, also in 2001.
2 I have, however, made minor adjustments in the format of citations for the sake of economy, for example
replacing “Aen. XII 775” with “A. 12.755” in cross-references to Vergil’s text.
viii foreword
I have done what I could to reconstitute the lost data and have also refined and sup-
plemented the surviving data that CEM and his assistants had gathered.
Preface
CEM’s partial draft of the Preface addressed several important technical questions:
the edition’s relation to volumes 2 and 3, an explanation of the way it presents the
two versions of the commentary (the “vulgate” Servius and Servius Auctus), and its
deviation from the previous volumes in a small but important detail of layout (pp.
xx–xxviii); the way in which it treats matters of orthography, including the assimila-
tion (or not) of prefixes (pp. xxviii–xxxiii); the constitution of the apparatus supe-
rior, which serves a purpose here different from that served by the upper apparatus
in the previous volumes (pp. xxxiii–xxxiv); and the constitution of the apparatus
inferior, which in this edition serves as the true critical apparatus (pp. xxxiv–xxxviii).
But it did not include either an overview of the textual tradition or descriptions of
the principal manuscripts, though cross-references in the draft showed that CEM
intended to provide both. I have supplied a concise summary of the tradition by
adapting the article CEM wrote on the subject for The Virgil Encyclopedia3 and have
drawn on Murgia 1975 and other studies for the descriptions. Readers should be
aware, however, that a remark in CEM’s draft of the Preface made it plain that he in-
tended to include in his descriptions details about scribal habits requiring a breadth
and depth of knowledge that only he could have brought to bear.
Peripheral pieces
Other finishing touches I have supplied include the following:
• Appendix B, a critique of the view of the textual tradition adopted by Giuseppe
Ramires in his editions of Servius on Aeneid 7 and 9 (2003 and 1996, respectively),
based on an unpublished paper by CEM (see Appendix B n.1) edited to suit the
present context;
• a list of the abbreviations of scholarly resources (CIL, TLL, etc.) used in the
edition;
• a table of authors, works, and editions cited in the text and testimonial apparatus,
so that interested readers can track the citations to their sources;
• full bibliographical references for the emendations cited in the critical apparatus,
provided for the same reason;
• an updating of many of the editions cited in the text, testimonial apparatus, and
table of authors and works;
3 Charles E. Murgia, “Servius, manuscripts of,” in The Virgil Encyclopedia, ed. J. Ziolkowski and R. F. Thomas
(Chichester, UK: Wiley Blackwell, © 2014), 1154–57. Reproduced with permission of Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
foreword ix
• a list of previous editions of Servius cited in the critical apparatus and a
bibliography of the secondary literature cited throughout;
• a table of sigla to precede the Latin text, with a list of abbreviations used in the
critical apparatus;
• an index locorum and an index nominum.
* * *
Had CEM been able to complete this work, he would have acknowledged, by name,
many scholars on whose assistance he had relied over the years, and I regret that I am
able to offer only a general and inadequate expression of gratitude in his stead.
Thanks, however, to Donald Mastronarde’s canvass of present and former students
of Berkeley’s Department of Classics, I can gladly acknowledge twelve of the gradu-
ate assistants who worked with CEM on the testimonial apparatus or, in a few cases,
on collations: these are, alphabetically by surname (and with apologies to anyone
unintentionally omitted), Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer, Andrew Finch, Stefan Gruen,
Karalee Strieby Harding, Tom Hendrickson, Jared Hudson, Miriam Pelikan
Pettinger, Paul Psoinos, Josephine Crawley Quinn, Dylan Sailor, Wilson Shearin,
and Sarah Stroup. I can also express more personal thanks to Tom Hendrickson and
Jared Hudson for answering my queries at an early stage of my work.
All users of this edition should know that the project would not have reached this
point if Donald Mastronarde had not devoted countless hours to managing CEM’s
Servian Nachlass: for those efforts we all owe him great thanks, as do I more partic-
ularly for the many questions he has answered and other forms of help he has pro-
vided over the past eighteen months. I also gladly thank the Regents of the University
of California, as owners of the copyright for CEM’s papers under the terms of his will,
who granted me joint ownership so that I might do what was necessary to bring the
edition to publication; and Berkeley’s Department of Classics, chaired by Nelly
Oliensis, for providing funds to help underwrite the cost of production. At Princeton,
Joseph Gauvreau gave invaluable assistance in compiling the table of authors, works,
and editions, as did Nancy Blaustein, department manager of Princeton’s Classics
Department, in helping with several administrative issues that arose; and the Classics
Department’s Magie Fund once again supported my work by providing a generous
subvention. Cynthia Damon came to the aid of the “APA / Harvard Servius” at a
critical juncture over a decade ago, working to ensure the project’s continuity; more
recently, as a referee, she suggested several important improvements in presentation
and provided help by answering some scholarly queries. For similar responses I am
grateful also to David Armstrong, James Brusuelas, Michael Flower, Chris Pelling,
John Ramsey, and Jim Zetzel. Dr. James Freeman, of the Cambridge University
Library, and Dr. Nicolas Bell, of the Wren Library (Trinity College), provided
exceptionally helpful replies to my inquiries. I was fortunate indeed in having an