Table Of ContentMARTIAL, BOOK IV
MNEMOSYNE
BIBLIOTHECA CLASSICA BATAVA
COLLEGERUNT
H. PINKSTER •H.S. VERSNEL
I.J.F. DE JONG •P.H. SCHRIJVERS
BIBLIOTHECAE FASCICULOS EDENDOS CURAVIT
H. PINKSTER, KLASSIEK SEMINARIUM, SPUISTRAAT 134, AMSTERDAM
SUPPLEMENTUM DUCENTESIMUM SEPTUAGESIMUM OCTAVUM
ROSARIO MORENO SOLDEVILA
MARTIAL, BOOK IV
MARTIAL, BOOK IV
A COMMENTARY
BY
ROSARIO MORENO SOLDEVILA
LEIDEN•BOSTON
2006
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I, fuge; sed poteras tutior esse domi
(Martial 1.3.12)
CONTENTS
Foreword and acknowledgements .............................................. ix
Introduction ................................................................................ 1
The dating of book IV .......................................................... 1
Themes and topics ................................................................ 2
The arrangement of the epigrams in book IV .................... 11
The form of the epigrams: structure, language, metrics .... 20
The manuscript transmission of Martial: some issues
relating to book IV ............................................................ 22
This commentary .................................................................... 24
Text and Translation ................................................................ 31
Commentary ................................................................................ 93
Bibliography ................................................................................ 545
Indices
General Index ........................................................................ 577
Index Nominum .................................................................... 581
Index Verborum .................................................................... 587
Index Locorum ...................................................................... 594
FOREWORD AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The last three decades bear witness to significant progress in Martial
research: almost all of his books of epigrams have been commented
on: book I (Citroni, 1975; Howell, 1980); book II (Williams, 2004),
book V (Howell, 1985; and, partially, Canobbio, 2002); book VI
(Grewing, 1997); book VII (Galán Vioque, 2002); book VIII (Schöffel,
2003); book IX (Henriksén, 1998–1999); book XI (Kay, 1985); and
the Xenia and the Apophoreta (Leary, 2001; 1996). On the remaining
books there are a number of unpublished dissertations. To this must
be added the recent commentary by L. and P. Watson on select
epigrams (2003). Furthermore, a great many recent studies have cast
new light on diverse aspects of his work and personality, in the form
of articles, monographic studies or compendia, such as Grewing’s
(1998) or the latest collection published by the Government of Aragón
in commemoration of the 19th centenary of Martial’s death (2004).
However, a commentary on Martial’s book IV was called for. This
book first took form as a Ph.D. thesis submitted at the Universidad
Pablo de Olavide (Sevilla) in November, 2003. I am obliged to the
members of the examination board, my greatest debt being to my
mentors, Francisco Socas Gavilán and Juan Fernández Valverde. I
was able to bring this project to completion thanks to a research
scholarship from the Spanish Ministry of Education. This also allowed
me to spend some months at Harvard University, where I was warmly
received by the Department of the Classics, especially by Kathleen
Coleman, and at the University of London, where I enjoyed the
atmosphere and took advantage of the resources of the Institute of
Classical Studies. My thanks are also due to Peter Howell, who kindly
read the Spanish manuscript and made invaluable suggestions and
remarks; to my friends and colleagues Ana Pérez Vega and Juan
Martos, from the Universidad de Sevilla, for all their assistance and
encouragement, as well as Guillermo Galán, from the Universidad
de Huelva, and Ana Prados, librarian of the Departamento de Filo-
logía griega y latina of the Universidad de Sevilla; and especially to
Daniel Nisa and Jan Zoltowski for having painstakingly corrected
the English version. In the later stages of the work the anonymous
referee made numerous helpful remarks and corrections, for which
