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PROSE WRITINGS of LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA. [Latin Text] This dissertation has been I microfilmed exactly as received ^ 5—13,302 ; ZEINZ,- ■ Joseph Henry, 1917- !| RECENT CRITICAL WORK IN THE TEXT OF THE | PROSE WRITINGS OF LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA. [Latin Text]. (VOLUMES I AND H). ; I The Ohio State University, Ph.D., 1965 ! Language and Literature, classical University Microfilms, Inc., Ann Arbor, Michigan Copyright by Joseph Henry Zeinz 1966 RECENT CRITICAL WORK IN THE TEXT OF THE PROSE WRITINGS OF LHCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Volume I DISSERTATION Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of the Ohio State University by Joseph Henry Zeinz, A. B., II. A« ****** The Ohio State University 1965 Approved by A dviser Department of Classical Languages ACKNOWLBDGliENT With grateful appreciation I wish to acknowledge the inspira­ tion, patient guidance, and assistance whioh Professor fonneth M. Abbott, of the Ohio State University, has given in the preparation of this dissertation. A debt of gratitude is likewise owing to Professor John B. Titchener and Professor W. Robert Jones who have read the manuscript in its entirety and have o:^ered a number of valuable sug­ g e s tio n s . i i VITA July 1, 1917 Born - Now York City, How York 1938 . A.B., Holy Cross College, Worcester, Massachusetts 1939 • • • • Professed as member of the Society of Mary (M arianists), a teaching congregation of the Catholic Church 1941 . M.A», The Catholic University of America, Washington, U.C. 1941-1944. • Instructor in secondary schools in Ohio and California 1944-1947. Theological studies at St. Me inrad Major Seminary, St. Meinrad, Indiana 1946 • . • • Ordination to the Roman Catholic Priesthood 1947-1955. s Instructor at Cathedral Latin School, Cleveled, Ohio 1955-1961. • Instructor at St. Joseph College, Yokohama, Japan 1961-1963* . Graduate Fellow in the Department of Classical Languages of the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 1963-1964. • Teaching Assistant in the Departments of Classical lan­ guages and Comparative Literature, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 1964- . DistiniCtor, Department of Languages, The University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio i i i CONTENTS Volume I Introduction ...... ........................................................... 1 S i g l a ............................................................... 10 AbbrcTiations of Periodicals .......................................................................................15 Bibliography ............................................................................ 16 Additamentum Ad Apparatum Critioum Ad Luo ilium De Providentia (Dialogorum Liber l ) .........................54 Ad Serenum ^ Constantia Sapientis (Dialogonm Liber II) • • 46 Ad Nova turn De Ira (Dialogorum Libri III-V) . ........................60 Ad Marciam De Consolatione (Dialogorum Liber V I ) ................... 157 Ad Gallionem De Vita Beata (Dialogorum Liber VII) ................... 190 Ad Serenum Ds Otio (Dialogorm Liber VIIl) . .............................. 215 Ad Serenum De Tranqui 1 litate Animi (Dialogorum Liber H ) . 223 Ad Pdulinum De Brevitate Vitae (Dialogorum Liber X ) ...............250 Ad Polybium De Consolatione (Dialogorum Liber X l) ................... 281 Ad Helviam Matrem De Consolatione (Dialogorum Liber XII) . • 302 iv INTRODUCTION The main purpose of the present dissertation is to make a contribution to a critical Index Yerbonaa to the prose works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca* This project has been under way for several decades, and w ill shortly be published by Professor Kenneth M, Abbott of the Ohio State University faculty. The dissertation itself is a survey of the recent critical work on the text of Seneca's prose writings and minor poetry. The survey w ill take the form of an Additamentim ad Afparatum Critioum which it is planned to publish as part of the forthcoming critical Index Yerborum. The purposes of an Additamentum ad Apparatum Critioum to the Index Yerborum of any Latin author are briefly these: (a) to present to tbs reader an accurate account of the critical dis­ cussions of the text of the Latin writing in question, and to list the variants which have been published or proposed since the publication date of the most recent complete major critical edition; and (b) to present an accurate list of the editions and journal articles wherein the emendations have been proposed or printed, or wherein the changes suggested Ty other scholars have been approved or rejected. The value to the scholar of the critical Index Yerborum can hardly be overestimated, since the need for more carefully edited 2 texts seems obvioiis. The significance of the body of such an Index is that it presents to the scholar in carefully arranged fom the loca­ tion and usage of all of the words as printed in the basic^ text. The scholar who is primarily interested in the construction of the most accurate text possible of the writing in question, must have at his fingeirbips a simmary in convenient fom of the critical work that has been done by other scholars in the text of the author. The Additamentum ad Apparatum Critioum provides such a summary. The Additamentum which follows is a compilation of the c riti­ cal work done in the text of Seneca's prose and minor poetic works since the publication dates of the several volumes of the basic Teub- ner edition. By exception, in the case of three of Seneca's works which have already been studied in Master's theses, the present study takes up the survey where these theses leave off. The basic text for Seneca's prose writings is in every case a voltane of the Teubner series, jL. Annaei Senecae Opera Quae Super sunt. For those Epigraannata not contained in the Supplementum volume of the above series, the basic text is reprinted in this dissertation from the edition of Bull Baehrens, Poetae Latini Minores, Vols. IV and V. The Dialogit The basio text, the edition of Emil Hemes, Dialogorum Libri XII (Leipzig, 1923), appears as Vol. I, Paso. I of the Teubner series. Since this is actually only a reprint of the 1905 ^The word basic, far from implying a value judgnent on the relative worth of one text or edition over another, merely indicates the standard or nom used in reporting variants and emendations in the course of this study. The Teubner edition of Seneca, basis for the Index Verborum of whioh this dissertation w ill fom a part, is also Ibasic for the Additamentim ad Apparatum Critioum. 3 edition, this survey includes texts edited since approximately 1900, and journal articles published since that time, in which emendations have been proposed or discussed by scholars. The De^ Beneficiis and De dementia: The edition of Carl Hosius, De Beneficiis Libri VII, De dementia Libri II (Leipzig, 1923), which appears as Vol. I, Fasc. II of the Teubner series, is the basio text. Since Hosius did not avail himself of all the critical work published after his earlier edition, this survey w ill include texts and journal articles that are pertinent and that have been published since 1900. The Maturales Quaestiones; The basic text is the edition of Alfred Gercke, Naturalium Quaestionum Libri VTII (Leipzig, 1907), which is Vol. II of the Teubner series. A Master's thesis by Fred Joseph Stefano (1949) has surveyed the critical work done in the Haturalas Quaestiones down to 1945, at which date the present survey w ill begin. The Epistulae Morales: The basic text is the edition of O tto. Hense, Ad Lucilium Epistularum Moralium Quae Supersunt (Leipzig, 1914), whioh is Vol. Ill of the Teubner series. A Master's thesis by George Robert Holsinger (1948) has brought the Additamenturn down to 1945. This dissertation w ill survey texts and journal articles published since that date. The Ludus (or Apooolocyntosis): The basic text is the edition of Friedrich Haase's Supplementum to the Teubner series (Leipzig, 1881). A Master's thesis by Frances Kopp Evans (1952) has brought the Additamentum down to 1945, at which date this dissertation w ill resume the survey. 4 For the minor works of Seneoa—-the Epigrammata super Exilio, Fragmenta, De Remediis Fortuiterum. De Paupertate, De Morihus, De For­ mula Honestae Vitae, Epistulae ad Paulum Apostolum, and the Bpitaphium Seneoae—again the basio text is that of Haase, the Supplementum» This survey w ill include available critical work on these writings sinoe 1881. In addition to the Epigrammata super Exilio published by Eaase, other epigrams have been widely attributed to Seneca. The text for these additional poems has been taken from the edition of Ball Baeh­ rens, Poetae latin i Minores, Vols. IV and V (Leipzig, 1882 and 1885), and has been reproduced in the pages of this dissertation, together with pertinent critical work on the text of these poems. In surveying the most significant publicaticns sinoe the vari­ ous tem inal dates given above, an examination has been made of all the editions and journal articles that could be found available in the libraries of the Ohio State University and the University of Cincin­ nati. As far as possible, the resources of these libraries were supplemented, through interlibrary loans, by the resources of other libraries throughout the country. A few foreign works (chiefly school editions and translations) and a number of articles in foreign period­ icals could not be examined at first hand. Tfhere such publications contain seemingly valuable critical material, they have been listed in the bibliography with an asterisk (*) before the entry. Occasionally emendations contained in these wozks are reported as cited from other s o u rc e s . 5 In referring to the text of Seneca, the titles used in this dissertation, as well as citations by book, chapter, section, and line of Seneca's works, are based on the usage in the various volumes of the Teubner series listed above. The basio reading given in each case is that of the Teubner text, with the exception of the additional Epi­ grammata. No recognition has been given of variant readings which involve merely an orthographical difference; thus, variations in spelling (particularly of proper names), or variations between assimilated and unassimilated prefixes (e.g., adl- and a ll-), have not been noted.
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