The summaries, on the other hand, entered the tradition in late antiquity (2nd - 6th cent. The register of vocabulary, which may originate in the 9th century, closely resembles a method of tracking vocabulary seen in mss. These two classes of marginal notes, the study demonstrates, are older than A itself. This study takes up the questions of the notes’ origin and function, concentrating in particular on the register of vocabulary and the summaries. These include: corrections to the text, critical marks signaling textual difficulties, a register of Latin vocabulary, and argumentative summaries. Montpellier, Bibliothèque interuniversitaire, Section Médecine, H 126 (A), contains several different classes of marginal notes.
Study of the operation of the shared locus carries several advantages: (1) we appreciate distinctions between declaimers (2) we recognize shared passages as a medium of communication and (3) the shared locus emerges as a community resource, explaining deep-seated connections between declamation and literary works.Ī corpus of Latin declamatory works (Minor Declamations, excerpts from the elder Seneca, and Calpurnius Flaccus), as seen in the ninth-century ms. A key organizing principle, informing both the collection and the practice of declamation, was the ‘shared locus’-a short passage, defined by verbal and argumentative ingredients, that gained currency among declaimers. This volume attempts to ‘hear’ the individual speech of declaimers by focusing on two speakers-Arellius Fuscus, rhetor to Ovid, and Papirius Fabianus, teacher of the younger Seneca. Despite this potential, modern readings have often lumped declaimers together en masse and organizational principles basic to Seneca’s collection remain overlooked. A view is offered onto a literary scene, for this critical period of Roman letters, that is numerously populated, highly interactive, and less dominated by just a few canonical authors. The collection of the elder Seneca assembles quotations from scores of declaimers over a period spanning sixty years, from the Augustan Age through the early decades of the empire.
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