Autore: Nice, Alex
Titolo: Ennius or Cicero?: the disreputable diviners at Cic. de div. 1.132
Rivista/Miscellanea: "Acta classica", XLIV
Anno edizione: 2001
Pagine: 153-166
Parole chiave: Philosophie - Filosofia - Philosophy, Poesia - Poesie - Poetry, Religion - Religione - Religion, Stylistique et genres littéraires - Stilistica e generi letterari - Stylistics and literary genre
Descrizione: At the end of the first book of Cicero's De Divinatione, Quintus remarks that, even though he believes in divination, there are some diviners whom he would not trust to give accurate predictions. These comments are followed by a quotation from Ennius' Telamo. Most modern scholars have assumed, therefore, that the previous lines also contain an echo, if not a paraphrase of Ennius' work. This supposition does not seem to be supported by the language or style employed by Cicero. The lines should rather be understood as embodying the parochial view that elite Romans had towards forms of divination that were foreign, rustic or mercenary and not practised by the Roman state.
Opere:
Link: https://www.jstor.org/stable/24595362?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
Sigla autore: Nice 2001
Titolo: Ennius or Cicero?: the disreputable diviners at Cic. de div. 1.132
Rivista/Miscellanea: "Acta classica", XLIV
Anno edizione: 2001
Pagine: 153-166
Parole chiave: Philosophie - Filosofia - Philosophy, Poesia - Poesie - Poetry, Religion - Religione - Religion, Stylistique et genres littéraires - Stilistica e generi letterari - Stylistics and literary genre
Descrizione: At the end of the first book of Cicero's De Divinatione, Quintus remarks that, even though he believes in divination, there are some diviners whom he would not trust to give accurate predictions. These comments are followed by a quotation from Ennius' Telamo. Most modern scholars have assumed, therefore, that the previous lines also contain an echo, if not a paraphrase of Ennius' work. This supposition does not seem to be supported by the language or style employed by Cicero. The lines should rather be understood as embodying the parochial view that elite Romans had towards forms of divination that were foreign, rustic or mercenary and not practised by the Roman state.
Opere:
Link: https://www.jstor.org/stable/24595362?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
Sigla autore: Nice 2001
