Table Of ContentLYGDAMUS
CORPUS TIBULLIANUM Ill.1-6:
LYGDAMI ELEGIARUM LIBER
MNEMOSYNE
BIBUOTHECA CLASSICA BATAVA
COLLEGERUNT
J.M. BREMER. LF.JANSSEN · H. PINKSTER
H. W. PLEKET · C.J. RUUGH , P.H. SCHRIJVERS
BIBLIOTHECAE FASCICULOS EDENDOS CURAVIT
C.J. RUUGH, KLASSIEK SEMINARIUM, OUDE TUR™ARKT 129, AMSTERDAM
SUPPLEMENTUM CENTESIMUM QUINQUAGESIMUM QUARTUM
FERNANDO NAVARRO ANTOUN (Eo. & CoMM.)
LYGDAMUS
CORPUS TIBULLIANUM IIl.1-6
LYGDAMI ELEGIARUM LIBER
LYGDAMUS
CORPUS TIBULLIANUM 111.r-6
LYGDAMI ELEGIARUM LIBER
EDITION AND COMMENTARY
BY
FERNANDO NAVARRO ANTOLIN
TRANSIATED BY J.J. ZOLTOWSKI
E.J. BRILL
LEIDEN· NEW YORK· KOLN
1996
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Navarro Antolin, Fernando.
Lygdamus : Corpus Tibullianum III. 1-6: Lygdami clegiarum liber /
by Fernando Navarro AntoJin.
p. cm. - (Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava.
Supplementum, ISSN 0169-8958; 154)
Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral-University
or Seville).
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
ISBN 9004102108 (cloth: alk. paper)
I. Lygdamus---Criticism and interpretation. 2. Elegiac poetry,
Latin-Translations into Spanish. 3. Elegiac poetry, Latin-History
and criticism. 4. Lygdamus- Translations into Spanish. 5. Elegiac
poetry, Latin-Authorship. 6. Lygdamus-Authorship. 7. Tibullus-
-Authorship. 8. Rome-In literature. I. Lygdamus. Spanish.
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CONTENTS
Preface ......................................................................................... .
IX
Introduction ................................................................................ . I
I. The QgaestioL ygda1T1£..a.. ..................................................... .. 3
2. Lygdamus and Neaera ...................................................... . 21
3. The Configuration of the CorpusT tbvllianvm. .................... 25
4. The Ms. Transmission of the CorpusT tbvllianvm. ............. 31
Critical Edition ........................................................................... . 41
Editionese t Commentationiens ApparatuC riticoL avdatae .............. 43
ConspectuSsi glorvm. .................................................................... ... 49
Text ............................................................................................. . 51
Translation Into Spanish ........................................................... . 77
Commentary ............................................................................... . 91
LygdamvsI ................................................................................. ... 93
LygdamvsI I ................................................................................ ...1 47
LygdamvsI II .............................................................................. ...1 93
LygdamvsI V ............................................................................... ...2 58
LygdamvsV ................................................................................ ...4 13
LygdamvsV I ............................................................................... ...4 59
Bibliography ................................................................................ . 529
Appendix ..................................................................................... . 551
Index Avctorvm .......................................................................... . 559
Index Locorvm ........................................................................... . 570
Index Rervm .............................................................................. . 616
PREFACE
J.
Since H. Voss made a clear distinction, in 17 86, between the
genuine works of Tibullus (books I-II) and those wrongly attributed
to him (book III), his conclusion that the last book of the Corpus
7ibullianum is not by Tibullus himself has been shared by the major
ity of classical scholars interested in the elegiac genre. Since Voss
published his work, there has been no lack of articles and mono
graphic studies on each of the components of book III, regarded as
works with an independent literary existence from the first two books
of the Corpus.T he present study continues this line of research, con
centrating on the short cycle of poems by Lygdamus, which was for
some reason ignored in the extensive commentary by K. F. Smith
(1913). My chosen method of research is philological in the fullest
sense of the term: a critical edition with a commentary covering all
aspects of the text. Only in this way can a work of literature be fully
understood, as was well known to the pioneers in philological stud
ies, the editors of the Renaissance, although in subsequent centuries
the wise old formula of combining in one single work a critical edi
tion and philological commentary (who better to understand a text
scientifically than the commentator, and who better placed to under
stand the content than the editor?) has fallen into some disuse, espe
cially in Spain.
My main criterion, both in the critical edition and in the com
mentary, has been that of comprehensiveness. My aim has been to
put together the greatest amount of information possible. The brev
ity of the object of study (290 11.)h as enabled me to consult consid
erably more material than if it had been the whole of the Corpus
1ibullianum,f or instance, or the epigrams of Martial: more mss. ex
amined and more editions and commentaries consulted, both early
and modern.
As far as the critical edition is concerned, I am firmly convinced
that, given the obvious risk of not being able to see the wood for the
trees, a critica] apparatus should never aim to reflect exhaustively
and ad nauseam the whole history of the text (that is, not only mss.,
edd. vett. et recc.,c onjectures, etc., but even phonetic variants). While
I also hold that a critical editor should never overspeculate concerning
X PREFACE
conjectures, at the risk of falsifying the tradition, it is equally true
that brevity and caution are not always the most valuable weapons
of a good critical editor, since excessive brevity in the interests of
clarity may conceal valuable information which might have enabled
the reader to judge the editor's text properly, choose rejected vari
ants or else come up with his own conjectures; and excessive caution
robs the edition of much of its attraction and deprives it of its raison
d'etre, since it makes it difficult to perceive any practical results
improving the text. Any new critical edition, in my view, should aspire
to at least one (preferably both) of the following objectives: a) To
offer a substantial improvement on previous editions, presenting a
readable text, that is, one that will be of use to the simple reader
translator with no interest in questions of textual criticism, without
requiring him to consult the apparatus; consequently, every attempt
should be made to avoid the obelisks employed by over-cautious
editors, who scar their texts with meaningless words or lines and
force the simple reader to act against his will as an experienced tex
tual critic; and b) To furnish the text with a critical apparatus as
comprehensive and exhaustive as possible which will provide the reader
who is interested in textual criticism with a useful tool which will
enable him to opt, where appropriate, for other readings or conjec•
tures than those presented, or even to make his own conjectures.
What is the point of a miserly critical apparatus, generally of the
'dogmatic' editioO xoniensitsy pe, where all too often the obvious ab
surdity of the only or few variants offered leaves the reader in no
doubt that the best reading is that chosen by the editor? If the idea
is to prevent the reader from thinking freely, the best thing would
surely be to forget about the critical apparatus altogether and present
just the final text. In order to provide as much information as pos
sible, it also seemed advisable to indicate in the apparatus the auctoritas
of the editors who follow this or that reading or conjecture; for the
sake of clarity, I have avoided the convenient but chaotic sigla of the
recc. or ltali.
As for the the philological commentary, the ideal of comprehen
siveness involves commenting on points of interest of all kinds (realia,
literary topoia nd motifs, mythology, metre, style, language, echoes,
iuncturaep, rose usages, ho.paxk gomena,q uestions of textual criticism,
etc.), as well as offering the reader a poem-by-poem, line-by-line and
word-by-word commentary on the Lygdamean cycle. I have also
attempted to make each entry in the commentary function as a short
