In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Miryam & Cesar Libran Moreno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> write: >Could you please inform me whether De Rosis Nascentibus is considered to >be a part of the Appendix Vergiliana? I always thought that Decimus >Magnus Ausonius wrote it, but to my surprise I found it listed in the >Appendix in a Latin Literature Textbook.
The textbook was right, but you may well be right too. The poem is transmitted with other poems of the Appendix Vergiliana; it was claimed for Ausonius in the sixteenth century by Hieronymus Aleander and (on MS evidence now lost) by M. Accursius. No-one imagines it is by Vergil; the attribution to Ausonius is contested, but favoured by R. P. H. Green in his edition, _The Works of Ausonius_ (Oxford, 1990), 669. Some of the MSS containing it also contain the poems _De institutione viri boni_ and _De est et non_, which are undoubtedly Ausonian (they are XIV. 20 and 21 in Green, but otherwise allocated by other editors). Nevertheless, all three are also edited in the OCT of the Appendix Vergiliana (Oxford, 1966); in the preface, signed by Wendell Clausen (who edited all three) ahead of his colleagues, it is stated: "Poematia quoque 'Ausoniana' Vergilio olim perperam attributa Appendici appendiculae loco subiungere placuit." Leofranc *_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_* Leofranc Holford-Strevens 67 St Bernard's Road usque adeone Oxford scire MEVM nihil est, nisi ME scire hoc sciat alter? OX2 6EJ tel. +44 (0)1865 552808(home)/267865(work) fax +44 (0)1865 512237 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) *_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_* ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message "unsubscribe mantovano" in the body (omitting the quotation marks). You can also unsubscribe at http://virgil.org/mantovano/mantovano.htm#unsub
