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
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