The Invectives of Sallust and Cicero: Critical Edition with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary

233 Pages·2009·0.768 MB·English

by  Anna Novokhatko

Anna A.Novokhatko
The Invectives of Sallust and Cicero
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Anna A. Novokhatko
The Invectives
of Sallust and Cicero
Critical Edition with Introduction,
Translation, and Commentary
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To my parents, my constant support
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Preface
The study is a revised and expanded version of my Ph.D. dissertation,
which was defended at Moscow Lomonossov University in December
2003. In the course of this work I have received much help and advice.
Iwould like to thank Hans-Christian Günther for his guidance during the
course of this project. I am grateful to Paul Gerhard Schmidt and the late
Josef Delz for their challenging and instructive comments. I am also in
debt to Mario Geymonat, to Nigel Wilson and to Dirk Obbink for their
intellectual as well as practical help.
In Russia Alexander Evgenjevich Kuznetsov, Dmitrij Evgenjevich
Afinogenov, and Michael Michaelovich Pozdnev have all been extremely
knowledgeable and supportive advisers throughout. My tremendous
gratitude is due to Andrej Vinogradov. Without his help this work could
not have been completed. I also thank Elton Barker for his comments and
kind support. I am grateful to Susan Reynolds who kindly allowed me to
use the manuscript archive of the late Leighton Durham Reynolds. My
warm and sincere thanks go further to the Faculty of Letters (and es-
pecially to the Department of Classical Philology) of the Moscow Lo-
monossov University where I studied, and to the Institute of Classics at
the Albert-Ludwigs-University in Freiburg im Breisgau, and its director
Bernhard Zimmermann, where this book was written. I cannot thank
John Carras enough for his outstanding patience correcting the English
version of my manuscript, in addition to the invaluable guidance he pro-
vided along the way. Finally, I thank my sister Catherine, my loveliest
friend and warmest supporter.
This book was written with the financial support of the German Aca-
demic Exchange Service (DAAD).
Freiburg im Breisgau, October 2008 Anna Novokhatko
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Contents IX
Contents
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . VII
Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . XI
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Chapter 1 What are the invectives against Cicero and
against Sallust? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.1 Rhetoric as a central part of Roman education . . . . . . . 4
1.1.1 Declamatio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.1.2 Suasoria and Controversia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
1.1.3 The Schools of Rhetoric in Rome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
1.1.4 The importance of imitation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
1.2 Generic features of invective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
1.3 The invectives of Sallust as a part of the rhetorical tradition 15
1.4 The historical context of the invectives . . . . . . . . . . . 17
1.5 The content of the invectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
1.5.1 The content of the invective against Cicero . . . . . . . . 18
1.5.2 The content of the invective against Sallust . . . . . . . . 21
Chapter 2 The history of the text known
as Sallust’s invectives based on collated medieval manuscripts
(10th– early 14th centuries) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
2.1 Archetype(cid:1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
2.2 Families(cid:2) and(cid:3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
2.2.1 Family(cid:2) (AFK+N, T GBX) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
2.2.2 Family(cid:3) (CD+I, S+QHb+L, RE+Z, Mp, HOPM) . . . . . 38
2.3 Hyparchetypes of the family(cid:2) (AFK+N, T GBX) . . . . . 40
2.3.1 Hyparchetype(cid:4) (AFK+N) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
2.3.2 Hyparchetype(cid:5) (T GBX) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
2.4 Hyparchetypes of the family(cid:3)
(CD+I, S+QHb+L, RE+Z, Mp, HOPM) . . . . . . . . . . . 56
2.4.1 Hyparchetype(cid:6) (CD+I) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
2.4.2 Hyparchetype(cid:7) (S+QHb+L, RE+Z, Mp, HOPM). . . . . . 64
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Chapter 3 The problem of authorship and the history of edited
invectives (incunabula and 16th–20th centuries) . . . . . . . . . . 111
3.1 Authorship of the invectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
3.1.1 Authorship of the invectives in antiquity . . . . . . . . . 111
3.1.2 Question of the authorship of the invectives in the
15th and 16th centuries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
3.1.3 Polemics on the authorship of the invectives in the
17th century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
3.1.4 Polemics on the authorship of the invectives in the
18th century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
3.1.5 Polemics on the authorship of the invectives in the
19th century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
3.1.6 Henrich Jordan and further polemics on the authorship
of the invectives from 1876 up until today . . . . . . . . . 123
3.2 The history of edited invectives
(incunabula and 16th–20th centuries) . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
3.2.1 Textual transmission of the invectives in incunabula . . . 129
3.2.2 Textual transmission of the invectives in the 16th century . 132
3.2.3 Textual transmission of the invectives in the 17th century . 139
3.2.4 Textual transmission of the invectives in the 18th century . 141
3.2.5 Textual transmission of the invectives in the 19th century . 144
3.2.6 Henrich Jordan and new editions of the invectives
from 1876 up until today . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Chapter 4 Text known as Sallust’s invectives with a new
apparatus criticus, a translation, and a commentary . . . . . . . . 150
Appendix. List of edited invectives
(incunabula and 16th–20th centuries) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Index rerum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Index nominum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
Index vocabulorum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221