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Athens and the Peace of Antalcidas
G. E. Underhill
The Classical Review / Volume 10 / Issue 01 / February 1896, pp 19 - 21 DOI: 10.1017/S0009840X00202928, Published online: 27 October 2009
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How to cite this article: G. E. Underhill (1896). Athens and the Peace of Antalcidas. The Classical Review, 10, pp 19-21 doi:10.1017/S0009840X00202928
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Downloaded from http://journals.cambridge.org/CAR, IP address: 130.88.90.140 on 20 Apr 2015 THE CLASSICAL REVIEW. 19 So the participle prU/tii, for *profeta, bar in view of pro-ficiscor and the like in I would take as irpo-Oera; in form equivalent Latin. to pro-dita, in meaning to posita. FREDERIC D. ALLEN. The use of pru- (instead of pru-) suggests Harvard University, pro- rather than pro-, but this need be no August 15, 1895.
LUCRETIUS AND CICERO.
AMONG the new data concerning the life by him with aequor (iii. 493, v. 128, vi. 634), of Lucretius contained in the manuscript with gurgite (v. 482), with momine ponti biography discovered by J. Masson in the (vi. 474), and in salso alone is found in British Museum copy of the Venice edition v. 1080; and moreover salsas lacunas is of Lucretius of 1492 (see Academy, 23 June written in iii. 1031 in such a connection that 1894) are the references to Cicero's criticism Neptuni cannot be substituted, there is no of the poem, especially as contained in the apparent evidence in the poem that this words admonitus ut in translationibus particular criticism was noticed. The servaret verecundiam ex quibus duo potis- evidence is negative as far as it goes. simum loci referuntur neptuni lacunas et Caeli cavernas, on the other hand, is caeli cavernas. In the form in which the found in iv. 171, and aetheriis cavernis in vi. poem has reached us the expression Neptuni 391; still the fourth book is known to be un- lacunas does not occur. Carl Radinger in finished, and the word caverna occurs only B.P.W. 22 Sept. 1894 has compared the ob- in the fourth and sixth books ; possibly the jection of the Auctor ad Herennium (4, 15) author in his revision wonld have removed to harsh and extravagant metaphors: cum the word. aut novis aut priscis verbis aut duriter As Radinger has remarked, I.e., we have aliunde translatis aut gravioribus quam res in this new biography strong reason for be- postulat, aliquid dicitur hoc modo:....si lieving that Lucretius profited by Cicero's praeceps in Neptunias depulsus erit lacunas. criticism, and hence that Cicero actually did Lucretius has referred to the principle in ii. criticize the work before publication. Con- 652 : hie siquis mare Neptunum Cererem- sequently the date of the poet's death can- que vocare | constituit fruges et Bacchi not be fixed by the date of the letter ad Q. nomine abuti, and in vi. 1076 is a good F. ii. 9, 3 (700/54). example of his use: non si Neptuni fluctu renovare operam des. Now in v. 794 occurs The biography is so circumstantial in re- terrestria de salsis exisse lacunis. Could lation to the suicide of the poet that it will Lucretius have substituted salsis for Neptuni hereafter be difficult to reject it as a owing to Cicero's criticism? This is the calumny of the haters of Epicurus. only passage in the poem where such a sub- W. A. MERRILL. stitution is possible. But as salsus is used University of California.
ATHENS AND THE PEACE OF ANTALCIDAS.
NEARLY half a century ago Grote, powerful, even after the loss of her maritime ignoring the hypothesis of Bockh (Staats- empire, that the allies at the Isthmus of haush. i. 546), that in the interval between Corinth, jealous of each other and held the battle of Cnidus, 394 B.C., and the Peace together only by common terror, could of Antalcidas, 387/6 B.C., Athens made a hardly stand on the defensive against her, deliberate and not unsuccessful attempt to and would probably have been disunited by regain her maritime empire, wrote the reasonable offers on her part; nor would following words: 'Never on any occasion she have needed even to recall Agesilaus did the excuse of self-preservation find less from Asia. Nevertheless the mission was real place than in regard to the mission of probably dictated by a groundless panic (the Antalcidas. Sparta was at that time so italics are mine), arising from the sight of 6 2 20 THE CLASSICAL REVIEW. the revived Long Walls and re-fortified Syracuse from Sparta and procure his Peiraeus, and springing at once to the alliance with Athens (Lysias xix. 19, C.I.A. fancy, that a new Athenian Empire, such ii. 8), at the same time that public honours as had existed forty years before, was about were decreed to Evagoras, the tyrant of to start into life: a fancy little likely to be Salamis in Cyprus, who had materially realized, since the very peculiar circum- helped Conon at the battle of Cnidus stances which had created the first Athenian (Lysias xix. 20, Isocr. ix. 54-57, G.I.A. ii. Empire were now totally reversed.' 106). In the same year a treaty was made Quite recently (1891), even after the between Athens and Phaselis in Lycia. articles of Swoboda and Kbhler (Mittheil. d. Consequently we are not surprised to hear arch. Inst. vii.) which deal with the new that the reason why in 392 the Lacedae- evidence to be derived from inscriptions, monians first sent Antalcidas to Tiribazus and the excursus of Beloch (Athen seit to negotiate a peace with Persia, was because Perikles) which reviews the whole policy of they heard on K.6v BASSAREUS. BASSAEEUS, the name under which Lyceios (KVKUOLydia, has name from