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Pompeius' freedman biographer again

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2009

Susan Treggiari
Susan Treggiari
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The Classical Review , Volume 19 , Issue 3 , December 1969 , pp. 264 - 266
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1969

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page 264 note 1 Cf. P. Oxy. 905, 11. 16–18, and edd. ad loc.

page 264 note 2 C.R. lxxx (1966), 271 ff.

page 264 note 3 Suetonian manuscripts have Voltacilius, Voltatilius, Volcatius, volacilius, Oltacilius, Octacilius, and otacilius. Those of Macrobius have votacilius, which Casaubon corrected to Otacilius.

page 265 note 1 Contra Robinson, , ed. C. Suetoni Tranquillide Gr. et Rhet. (Paris, 1925), ad loc.Google Scholar

page 265 note 2 Robinson (loc. cit.) argues wrongly on the ground that no Voltacilii Ploti are known. The patron's family would not exhibit this cognomen, nor would a freedman's son necessarily perpetuate it. Lewis's suspicion that the earlier mention by Suetonius of Plotius Gallus led Jerome to make a slip is unconvincing if the name in Jerome's copy was Pitholaus. Again, if we postulate an earlier corruption, it is hard to see how a scribe would have written the non-existent ‘Pilutus’ for a familiar Greek name.

page 265 note 3 Cf. Rudd, W. J. N., C.Q. liv (1960), 170f.Google Scholar

page 265 note 4 If the above explanation does not press a joke too far, it will be a double bluff: of course a Rhodian could use Greek, of course a Roman freedman could use Latin.

page 266 note 1 Cf. Suet. Gr. 7, 11, 18; Sen. Contr. x. 5. 22; Pliny, N.H. xxxv. 200.

page 266 note 2 Cf. Suet. Gr. 13 (Staberius Eros freed ‘propter litterarum studium’); Cic. Fam. xvi. 16. 2 (one of the motives for freeing Tiro).

page 266 note 3 For litigation on behalf of the patron cf. Cic. Scaur. 23.

page 266 note 4 Suetonius almost always identifies the patron, just as he mentions nationality if known.

page 266 note 5 It was because of this that Jerome made the error of supposing that Plotus was Pompey's freedman. For the clientela of freedmen cf. Cic. Rosc. Am. 19, Att. i. 12. 2; Suet. Gr. 12. The mistake occurs in App. B.C. iii. 94; cf. Veil. ii. 73. 3.

page 266 note 6 Suet. Gr. 12; Cic. Fam. xiii. 16; Sen. Contr. x. 5. 22.