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Tim Stover [email protected]

ALLUSIONS TO ’ ARGONAUTICA IN THE PUNICA OF SILIUS ITALICUS

1) Punica 11.469-72: quin etiam, Pagasaea ratis cum caerula nondum Moreover, when the at refused to cognita terrenae pontumque intrare negaret, launch out on the blue water which on land she ad puppim sacrae cithara eliciente carinae had never known, the sea, summoned by the lyre, adductum cantu uenit mare. obeyed the music and came up to the stern of the sacred bark. Arg. 8.378 (Pagasaea…puppis) and 1.422

(Pagaseia puppis)

Arg. 6.10 (rate…sacra)

Arg. 1.186-7: …decurrunt intrantque fretum. non clamor anhelis / nauticus aut blandus testudine defuit .

2) BC 9.980-1: How mighty, how sacred is the poet’s task! He o sacer et magnus uatum labor! omnia fato snatches all things from destruction and gives eripis et populis donas mortalibus aeuum. mortal men immortality.

3) Punica 12.408-9: sacer hic ac magna sororum That sacred head is dearly loved by the Aonidum cura est et dignus Apolline uates. and he is a bard worthy of .

Punica 13.781-3: nam luce refulget For [’s] sacred brow shines with a light praecipua frons sacra uiro, multaeque secuntur beyond compare, and many souls follow him and mirantes animae et laeto clamore frequentant. escort him with cries of wonder and delight.

4) Punica 9.157-9: sicine te nobis, genitor, Fortuna reducit Is it thus, father, that cruel Fortune brings you in patriam? sic te nato natumque parenti back to your country and to us? Is it thus she impia restituit? restores father to son and son to father?

Arg. 6.125-8: magnanimis mos ductus auis haut segnia mortis …a custom have they, inherited from great- iura pati, dextra sed carae occumbere prolis hearted sires of old, not to suffer the slow laws of ense dato, rumpuntque moras natusque parensque, death but to give a sword to their own dear ambo animis, ambo miseri tam fortibus actis. offspring and die by his right hand; so child and parent break through delays, in courage both, in gallant deed both miserable.

5) Punica 2.340-3: uidi ego cum… I looked on…when Regulus, the hope and pride …uolgo traheretur ouante of ’s race, was dragged along amid the carceris in tenebras spes et fiducia gentis shouts of the populace to his dark dungeon. Regulus Hectoreae.

Arg. 3.667-9: non datur haec magni proles Iouis; at tibi Pollux This scion of mighty Jove we may not have, but stirpe pares Castorque manent, at cetera diuum Pollux and Castor, in birth no less, are with you progenies nec parua mihi fiducia gentis. still, and all the other progeny of gods, nor is my boast of lineage small.

Punica 2.356-7: pudet Hercule tritas Shameful is it to shun a path that Hercules trod desperare uias laudemque timere secundam. and to shrink back from repeating his exploit.

6) Punica 12.355-8: The island, compassed about by the sound of insula fluctisono circumuallata profundo the waves, is made narrow at the ends by the sea fastigatur aquis compressaque gurgite terras that shuts it in; and the land within its borders is enormes cohibet nudae sub imagine plantae; irregular in shape, resembling the sole of a inde Ichnusa prius Grais memorata colonis. naked foot. Hence it was called Ichnusa by the first colonists from Greece.

Arg. 7.549-50: exeat Haemonio messis memoranda colono! Let the Haemonian farmer find a notable tuque tuum pestem in Graium da, nata, draconem. harvest to his reaping, and do you, daughter, offer up your for the destruction of the Greeks.

Punica 12.370: serpentum tellus pura ac uiduata uenenis

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