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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 March 2021
This note adduces three passages in Seneca the Elder to reinforce a demonstration in CQ 69 (2019), 793–8001 that the text of Plin. HN 7.117 has suffered corruption in one of its clauses and requires emendation to restore Pliny's intent. This additional evidence concerns a trope employed by declaimers which could have predisposed a scribe to alter Pliny's text to state that Cicero proscribed Mark Antony. Such a statement has no place in a list of achievements that otherwise all belong to Cicero's consulship twenty years earlier in 63 b.c.
I thank the following scholars for reading and commenting on earlier drafts: Dominic Berry, John Briscoe, Robert Kaster, Robert Morstein-Marx and Allen Ward. They are not, of course, to be held responsible for the views expressed.
The references on page 794 nn. 2 and 3 to my article in HSPh 110, which had not yet appeared when CQ went to press, can now be supplied: the year of vol. 110 is 2019, not 2018, as originally projected; the page-numbers are 237–42 and 244–5 respectively.
2 Two books that appeared too late for me to take them into account in the CQ article can be added to the works of scholarship cited on page 795 n. 7 that have been content to accept without challenge the anomaly of Cicero proscribing Mark Antony at HN 7.117: Keeline, T., The Reception of Cicero in the Early Roman Empire (Cambridge, 2018), 129CrossRefGoogle Scholar and Bua, G. La, Cicero and Roman Education (Cambridge, 2019), 72CrossRefGoogle Scholar.
3 As pointed out to me by the reader for CQ, the two quotations from Seneca doubtless reflect an often repeated theme in the schools, and so they carry more weight than a mere two instances would on their own.