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WORMS AND THE MAN IN LUCILIUS
The Classical Quarterly, Volume: 71, Pages: 1 - 8
Swansea University Author:
Ian Goh
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DOI (Published version): 10.1017/s0009838821000756
Abstract
This piece explores possible reasons for Lucilius’ suggestive reference to worms, emblemate uermiculato, in the famous comment (about speech arranged akin to mosaics) which has survived from Book 2 of the satirist. The fragment can be set metatextually amid other extracts of Lucilius to show the poe...
| Published in: | The Classical Quarterly |
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| ISSN: | 0009-8388 1471-6844 |
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Cambridge University Press (CUP)
2021
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa57833 |
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This piece explores possible reasons for Lucilius’ suggestive reference to worms, emblemate uermiculato, in the famous comment (about speech arranged akin to mosaics) which has survived from Book 2 of the satirist. The fragment can be set metatextually amid other extracts of Lucilius to show the poet's agency and skill, considered as having influenced aspects of its own afterlife (especially in Hor. Sat. 2.4) and appreciated in its historical context as a hit at Publius Mucius Scaevola, who died from phthiriasis. |
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| Keywords: |
Lucilius; worms; mosaic; insects; phthiriasis; satire; invective; Republican lawcourt |
| College: |
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
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1 |
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8 |