Trebonius' Allusion to Lucilius (Cic.<i>Fam.</i>12.16.3)

Goh, Ian

doi:10.1080/00397679.2013.817071

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2013

DOI: 10.1080/00397679.2013.817071

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Trebonius' Allusion to Lucilius (Cic.Fam.12.16.3)

Ian Goh

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SCEPTICISM AT THE BIRTH OF SATIRE: CARNEADES IN LUCILIUS’CONCILIVM DEORVM

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The best-known fact about the interaction of the Republican Roman poet Gaius Lucilius (c.180–103/102b.c.e.), the inventor of the genre of Roman verse satire, with the doctrine of Scepticism is probably a statement of Cicero: that Clitomachus the Academician dedicated a treatise to the poet (Cic.Luc. 102). Diogenes Laertius makes much of that writer's, Clitomachus’, industry (τὸ φιλόπονον, 4.67), with the comment: ‘to such lengths did his diligence (ἐπιμελείας) go that he composed more than four hundred treatises’. This phraseology surely reminds those interested in Lucilius’ influence on later Latin poetry of Horace's disparaging comment,in hora saepe ducentos, | ut magnum, uersus dictabat(‘as a bravura display, he would often dictate two hundred verses in an hour’,Sat.1.4.9–10); moreover, Horace shortly afterwards calls his predecessorgarrulus atque piger scribendi ferre laborem(‘talkative and too lazy to bear the work of writing’, 1.4.12). Yet, a sceptical view of Horace's critique might have to think of Lucilius as hard-working, like his putative friend the Academic philosopher, Clitomachus.

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Trebonius' Allusion to Lucilius (Cic.Fam.12.16.3)

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