Martial, Book Iv (mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava Supplementum)

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. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Brill provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910 Danvers, MA 01923, USA. 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 ................................................................................ The dating of book IV .......................................................... Themes and topics ................................................................ The arrangement of the epigrams in book IV .................... The form of the epigrams: structure, language, metrics .... The manuscript transmission of Martial: some issues relating to book IV ............................................................ This commentary .................................................................... Text and Translation ................................................................ Commentary ................................................................................ 1 1 2 11 20 22 24 31 93 Bibliography ................................................................................ 545 Indices General Index ........................................................................ Index Nominum .................................................................... Index Verborum .................................................................... Index Locorum ...................................................................... 577 581 587 594 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