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A literary history of Rome in the Silver Age

Note 1323 — Chapter V · SILIUS ITALICUS

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Ed. pr., Sweynheym et Pannartz, Rome, 1471; Parm., 1481; Mil., 1481; c. Marsi schol., Ven., 1483, 1492, 1493, and Par., 1512; Benessa, Lugd., 1514; Nicander (wilful interpolations), Flor., 1515; F. Asulanus, (Aldine) Ven., 1523; D. Heinsius, Leyd., 1600; Drakenborch, Utr., 1717; Ernesti, Lpz., 1791; Ruperti, Gött., 1795-1798; Nisard, ed. Didot (Fr. prose tr.), Par., 1878; Bauer, Lpz., 1890-1892; Summers, C.P.L., Lond., 1905.

Eng. trans.: Thos. Ross, Second Punick War (w. continuation to Death of Hannibal) Lond., 1661.

On Sources, etc.: Wezel, De Sil. Ital. cum fontibus tum exemplis, diss., Lpz., 1873; Heynacher, Die Quellen des Sil., Ilfeld, 1874; Die Stellung des Sil. unter d. Quellen des 2ᵗᵉⁿ pun. Kriegs, Ilf., 1877 (attempt to displace Livy as Silius’s source in favour of some early annalist like Fabius Pictor); Kerer, Ueber d. Abhängigkeit des S.I. von Livius, Bozen, 1881; Schlichteisen, De fide historica Silii, Königeb., 1881; Bauer, Das Verhältn. der Pun. des S.I. zur 3. Dekade des Livius, Erlang., 1884.

On Date of Composn., etc.: Schinkel, Quaest. Silianae, diss., Halle, 1883; Buchwald, Quaest. Sil., diss., Bresl., 1886.

On Language: Zingerle, Zu späteren lat. Dichtern, Heft II., pp. 12 sqq.; “Zu Lucan, Silius, Martial,” Innsb., 1879; Brandstäter, De Pun. ... argumento, stilo, ornatu poetico, Witten, 1877; Occioni, L’arte in S. Ital., etc., in Scritti di lett. latina, Rome, 1891; Lindblom, In S. Ital. Punica Quaestiones, Upsal., 1906.

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