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TWO EMENDATIONS ON STATIUS, THEBAID BOOK 6

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2025

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Abstract

This note discusses two places in Statius’ Thebaid (6.22 and 6.224), in which the transmitted text may be improved, and proposes new emendations.

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Latin literatureepicStatiusThebaidtextual criticismemendation
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Shorter Notes
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The Classical Quarterly , First View , pp. 1 - 2
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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Classical Association

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Footnotes

I would like to thank CQ’s anonymous reader and the editor for their comments. I am grateful to Stephen Oakley for discussing these passages with me. Unless indicated otherwise, translations are my own, as are any remaining errors.

References

1 The discussion of these two passages draws on the corresponding lemmata of my unpublished doctoral thesis, P.M.A. Puente Gamero, ‘A commentary on selected passages of Statius, Thebaid 6’ (Diss., University of Cambridge, 2023).

2 The text of the Thebaid follows J.B. Hall, in collaboration with A.L. Ritchie and M.J. Edwards, P. Papinius Statius. Thebaid and Achilleid, 3 vols. (Newcastle, 2007–8), unless otherwise indicated.

3 D.R. Shackleton Bailey, Statius II. Thebaid, Books 1–7 (Cambridge, MA, 2003), 329.

4 H.W. Fortgens, De Opheltis funere carmen epicum, Thebaidos liber VI 1–295 (Zutphen, 1934), ad loc.

5 Cf. Plaut. Asin. 617, Bacch. 63; Sen. Ep. 74.13; [Sal.] Ad Caes. sen. 2.4.3.

6 I thank CQ’s reader for making this observation. For a further example of ‘tragic irony’ in this book, cf. Theb. 6.558 with Puente Gamero (n. 1), ad loc.

7 J.B. Hall, ‘Notes on Statius’ Thebaid Books 5 and 6’, ICS 17 (1992), 287–99, at 295.

8 See TLL 6.2385.1–2386.2.

9 J.H. Mozley, Statius II. Thebaid V–XII, Achilleid (Cambridge, MA, 1928), 77.

10 For the delayed position of tunc in the word order, cf. Theb. 10.633–6 uirtus | … | … caelestibus ut tunc | desiluit gauisa plagis with R.D. Williams, P. Papini Stati Thebaidos liber decimus (Leiden, 1972), ad loc.