Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 February 2009
In 1915 a dispute over the meaning and interpretation of lines 3–4 of this poem prompted Ernst Hohl not only to propose reading ‘quo … locos’ instead of ‘quae … loca’ (a conjecture which he rightly abandoned in his edition of the Historia Augusta for the Teubner series in 1927) but also to question whether the poem really was composed by Hadrian.
page 384 note 2 Neue Jahrbücher xxxv (1915), 201 ff.Google Scholar (O. Immisch), 412 f. (L. Deubner), 413 ff. (E. Hohl), 415 f. (Immisch again). For further stages in the controversy over lines 3/4 see Sajdak, J., Eos xx (1914/1915), 147 ff.,Google ScholarBerliner Philologische Wochenschrift (1916), 765 ff.;Google ScholarSchneider, St., Eos xxi (1916), 92 ff.;Google ScholarHollstein, H., Rheinisches Museum lxxi (1916), 406 ff.Google Scholar
page 384 note 3 Viz. in an article by Barb, A. A., Folklore lxi (1950), 15ff.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
page 384 note 4 See most recently Birley, A., Marcus Aurelius (1966), 58 f.Google Scholar
page 384 note 5 Loc. cit.
page 384 note 6 Hadrian was not unfamiliar with magic (Dio. 69. 11. 3, 22. 1; PGM iv. 2447 ff).Google Scholar
page 384 note 7 Dio 69. 22. 4.
page 384 note 8 For Serenus see M. Schanz–Hosius, C., Geschichte der römischen Litleratur iii 3 (1922), 23 f.; R.E. II A, 2562 f.Google Scholar
page 384 note 9 The fragment numbers are those in Fragmenta Poetarum Latinorum, ed. Morel, W. (1927).Google Scholar
page 385 note 1 For example by Wagner, J. K., Quaestiones Neotericae (1907), 46 f.Google Scholar
page 385 note 2 e.g. Sajdak, locc. citt. Against, Hohl, E., Bursians Jahresbericht clxxi (1915), 145 f.Google Scholar
page 385 note 3 Wagner, ibid., writes ‘etiam loca Erebi et verbura tale quale pallidulus vel placidulus apud Serenum non defuisse ex similitudine Hadriani et Ausoni concludo’.
page 385 note 5 For some other possible echoes of Ausonius in the Historia Augusta see Barnes, T. D., JRS lvii (1967).Google Scholar One occurs at Hadr. 20. 8;cf. Anson, , Epigrammata xxxviii (xvii), 70 n. 23.Google Scholar
page 385 note 6 Cf. Straub, J., Historia-Augusta-Colloquium 1963 (1964) 171 f.Google Scholar
page 385 note 7 See Lessing, C., Scriptorum Historiae Augustae Lexicon (1901–1906), s.v. melior, peior, poeta, versus.Google Scholar
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page 385 note 9 Bursians Jahresbericht clxxi (1915), 145; cci (1924), 209.Google Scholar
page 386 note 1 Most of them are conveniently collected together at FPL pp. 153 ff.