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THE RO C E E DI NG S ·_ : . :. p I • 1 • • ' . ,, . OF THE - ~ . ' - AFRICAN ULASSICAL .. ., . · ASSOCIATIONS ,,. '· '·.:'", I ' • . Vol. 6 1963 THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE AFRICAN CLASSICAL ASSOCIATIONS, a journal for original contributiofls in any aspect of Greek or Roman studies, will accept such contributions primarily, but not exclusively, from scholars within Africa. Material submitted for publication must be type-written, double spaced, and have ample margins. Contributors of articles are entitled to receive 25 copies of their respec tive contributions free; II'eviewers receive 10 copies of their reviews. Proceedingis of the African Classical Associations is published annually in August or thereabouts. Articles for publication must reach the Managing Editor not later than April 30th. Advertising copy should be submitted to him by June 1st. The yearly subscription rate and/or the price for individual volumes is 16 shillings (numbers of volumes available are limited). 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THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE AFRICAN CLASSICAL ASSOCIATIONS Vol. 6 1963 CONTENTS Page J. FERGUSON Catullus and Martial 3 University of Ibadan T. F. CARNEY Notes on the H ecyra of T erence 16 University of Sydney L. G. POCOCK More argument concerning the Elymi Ohristc-hurch, New Zealand and the Odyssey 24 R. K. SINCLAIR Diodorus Siculus and the writing of University of Sydney history 36 W. S. ANDERSON Second thoughts on H ighet's Juvenal the University of California, Berkeley Satirist 45 Reviews G. E. DucKwORTH, Structural patterns and proportions in Vergil's Aeneid (E. C. Woodcock, Durham); C. R. WHITTAKER and M. E. TouBKIN (eds.), Ex Africa - Latin in Rhodesia, 1962 (D. G. Moore, Birmingham); L. P. WILKINSON, Golden Latin Artistry (N. E. Collinge, Durham); C. HIGNETT, Xerxes' Invasion of Greece (A. E. Wardman, Reading); C. DAY LEWIS (trans.), The Eclogues of Virgil (T. J. Haarhoff, Johannesburg); Sm A. PICKARD-CAMBRIDGE, Dithyramb Trage dy and Comedy , rev. ed. by T . B. L. Webster (W. Ritchie, Sydney); M. AYRTON, The T estament of Daedalus (J. H . Betts, Auckla nd); F. ScHACHERMEYR, Die iigiiische Friihzeit (F. H . Stubbings, Cambridge); L. PEARSON, Popular Ethics in Ancient Greece (A. Kyriakidou-Nestoros, Salonika); R. D. WILLIAMS, P. Vergili Maronis Aeneidos Liber III (J. E. Atkinson, Salis bury); H . D . F. Krrro, Sophocles, Three Trage dies (F. J. H. Letters, Armidale, 1• S. W .); A. H . NASH- WILLIAMS, Soda/es Duo (M. E. Toubkin, Salisbury); W . M. "\!\TILSON, Greek test j1apers for ordinary and higher level (J. M. Coates, Marandellas). 1 EDITORIAL BOARD Dr. E. BADIAN, Durham Colleges, University of Durham (British Editor); Prof. T. B. L. WEBSTER, University College, London; Prof. G. VAN N. VILJOEN, University of South Africa, Pretoria; Prof. H. F. GUITE, University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland (Managing Ed~tor); Mr. L. M. LAMBIRIS (Technical Editor); Miss P. FORDER, University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, (Assistant Editor). CATULLUS AND MARTIAL 1 poems would be recognized in the middle of the century.(i) On Lucan the indefatig We should li.ke to know what happened able Heitland comments: 'How intimate to Catwllus's poetry between the Augustan Lucan's knowledge of the works of the age and the end of the first century A.D. Republican poets was, we shall neve,r know. General experience suggests that he may Here and there we get a slight reminiscence have undergone some kind of eclipse. He of Lucretius or Catu1llus, ·but I do not infer was popular under Augustus, and Martial is that either of these writers had much in witness to his contemporary popularity; it fluence on the P.harsalia.'(4) This is un would be unusual in literary history if that questionably just. But Catullus did not offer popularity were sustained throughout the much o.f material use for historical epic or intervening period. Our evidence is insuf serious-minded Stoicism, and we may suspect ficient to be dogmatic. If, for example, we that if some of Lucan's juveniiia and occa take Phaedrus, his iambics seem to owe no sional poems had survived we would be able debt to those of Catu1llus. There are scarce'ly to detect a stronger influence. any verbal reminiscences. Even his poem This influence can be seen in Statius. Peras imposuit Iuppiter nobis duas: Wight Duff suggested that Statius's fond propriis repletam vitiis post tergum dedit, ness(5) for visual imagery might be an in alienis ante pectus suspendit gravem. heritance from Catullus. Certainly the Sil hac re videre nostra mala non possumus; vae demonstrate knowledge of Catullus; they alii simul delinquunt, censores sumus, also demonstrate small influence. Even in which some people derive from Catullus his hendecasyllabics, in which he is closest to Catullus, he uses a spondaic beginning sed non videmus manticae quod in tergo est, as his norm, giving his verse a heaviness is one of Aesop's fables which became a Stoic from which Catullus's is free, and extends commonplace, and if it is taken from any his poems to a hundred and more lines, far 1 Latin author, it is more likely Horace.( ) beyond the suitability of the metre. It is Persius also alludes to it, and elsewhere interesting that the one unquestionable Phaedrus expands Horace's quotation from Catullus parturiunt montes, nascetur ridiculus mus.(2) amplexum niveos optatae coniugis artus I have not found any reference to Catul is from one of CatuUus' golden hexameters lus in Seneca, except for one quotation in excipiet niveos perculsae virginis artus.(6) the Apocolocyntosis, which is doubtfully by Seneca, but which shows that the Passer The parrot elegy derives from the passer (1) Cat.