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Vivat Ludatque Cinaedus

Vivat Ludatque Cinaedus VIVAT LUDATQUE CINAEDUS BY E. COURTNEY 1 Current opinion in general, for example the last large-scale treatment of the sixth satire by W. S. Anderson, C.P. 51 (1956), 84-6, would appear to regard the Oxford fragment of Juvenal as spurious, basing itself mainly on the article by Professor Axelson in APArMA M. P. Nilsson (1939), 41 sqq. Influential as this has been, and salutary in toning down the intemperate criticisms of Professor Knoche, Philol. 93 (1938), 196 sqq., it is yet in my opinion not the best discussion, which is to be found in R. Clauss, Quaestiones criticae Iuvenalianae (Leipzig 1912), 10-33. This work is only mentioned incidentally by Axelson, but I am deeply indebted to it in what follows, and much of what I say is at least suggested by it. I prefer to correct what seem to me misapprehensions by other scholars tacitly, and shall only enter on controversial refuta- tions where that is unavoidable. Anyone who wants to uphold the genuineness of the fragment must first show that 346-8 will not stand; nor is this a difficult task. In 286 Juvenal asks why Roman wives have degenerated since the days of early Rome: he answers http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Mnemosyne Brill

Vivat Ludatque Cinaedus

Courtney, E.
Mnemosyne , Volume 15 (1): 262 – Jan 1, 1962
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© 1962 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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VIVAT LUDATQUE CINAEDUS BY E. COURTNEY 1 Current opinion in general, for example the last large-scale treatment of the sixth satire by W. S. Anderson, C.P. 51 (1956), 84-6, would appear to regard the Oxford fragment of Juvenal as spurious, basing itself mainly on the article by Professor Axelson in APArMA M. P. Nilsson (1939), 41 sqq. Influential as this has been, and salutary in toning down the intemperate criticisms of Professor Knoche, Philol. 93 (1938), 196 sqq., it is yet in my opinion not the best discussion, which is to be found in R. Clauss, Quaestiones criticae Iuvenalianae (Leipzig 1912), 10-33. This work is only mentioned incidentally by Axelson, but I am deeply indebted to it in what follows, and much of what I say is at least suggested by it. I prefer to correct what seem to me misapprehensions by other scholars tacitly, and shall only enter on controversial refuta- tions where that is unavoidable. Anyone who wants to uphold the genuineness of the fragment must first show that 346-8 will not stand; nor is this a difficult task. In 286 Juvenal asks why Roman wives have degenerated since the days of early Rome: he answers

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Published: Jan 1, 1962

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