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Quo Usque Tandem Patiemini?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

D. C. Innes
D. C. Innes
Affiliation:
St. Hilda's College, Oxford
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Abstract

In his article (CP 71 (1976), 97–105) R. Reneham rightly classes Sail. Cat.20.9 as a conscious imitation of Cic.Cat.1.1, but adopts the unsatisfactory explanation of parody. Such parody is, as he notes, without parallel in Sallust and ineptly distracts attention from the vigorous development of Catiline's rhetoric. Elsewhere mimesis is regularly a compliment to the author imitated, often closely functional by reinforcing a point from the parallel of a similar context (e.g. Sail. Cat.4.1 ~ Pl. Ep.324 b). Similarly I suggest that here Sallust recalls Cicero's words to illustrate that perversion of vocabulary which is the keynote of Catiline's speech: just as he misuses, for example, the terms virtus fidesque at the beginning of his speech, in stark contrast to Sallust's own definition, so he perverts the famous words of the attack which revealed his true villainy in similar savage indignatio.

Type
Shorter Notes
Information
The Classical Quarterly , Volume 27 , Issue 2 , December 1977 , pp. 468
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1977

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