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Browsing named entities in E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus (ed. E. T. Merrill). You can also browse the collection for Macedonia (Macedonia) or search for Macedonia (Macedonia) in all documents.
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E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus (ed. E. T. Merrill), Friends and foes. (search)
E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus (ed. E. T. Merrill), Poem 28 (search)
An address of sympathy to Veranius and Fabullus on their return in
poverty from an absence in Macedonia on the staff of Piso, the governor.
This absence of theirs is not to be confounded with their earlier
trip to Spain mentioned
in Catul. 9.1ff. and elsewhere (cf.
Intr.
68ff.).—Date, about 55 B.C. Meter, Phalaecean.
Pisonis: i.e. L.
Calpurnius Piso Caesonianus, on whom see Intr. 70.
comites: i.e. members
of the cohors, or staff, of a
provincial governor; cf. Catul.
11.1; Catul. 46.9.
inanis:
penniless, for Piso cared only to enrich
himself, and Cicero
scores him for his avarice in Cic.
Pis. 35.86; cf.
Catul. 64.288
vacuus.
aptis: i.e.
accommodated to the circumstances of their bearers, as
definitely explained by inanis;
th
E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus (ed. E. T. Merrill), Poem 47 (search)
An expression of indignation that two unworthy men should have
enriched themselves as members of the cohors of Piso in Macedonia (cf. Catul.
28.1ff.), while Veranius and Fabullus came back poor.
With the interrogative form throughout cf. Catul. 60.1ff., and see Catul. 9.10n. —Date, about 55
B.C. (see Intr. 68). Meter,
Phalaecean.
Porci et Socration:
otherwise unknown, though the good Roman name of the former
may indicate that he was a man of some social position,
while the latter, being a Greek, was perhaps one of the
favorites mentioned by
Cic. Pis. 27.67
Graeci stipati quini in lectis, saepe
plures.
sinistrae: i.e.
accomplished assistants in plundering rascality; cf. Catul. 12.1n., and
the familiar English expression ‘his right-hand
men.’
Pisonis: see Intr. 70.
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E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus (ed. E. T. Merrill), Poem 66 (search)