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Cicero ad Atticum Cicero's Letters to Atticus, with an

English Translation by E. O. Winstedt, M.A. Vol. I. LoebClassical Series. Heinemann, 1912. 5s. net.

J. Jackson

The Classical Review / Volume 27 / Issue 06 / September 1913, pp 211 - 212DOI: 10.1017/S0009840X00005680, Published online: 27 October 2009

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T H E C L A S S I C A L R E V I E W

and there is nothing sensational in the

Spartan excavations of this season.

The re is a plan of the Orthian sanctuary,

and we are told to expect full publica-

tion of the finds in a separate book.

An inscription from Asia Minor (p. 107)

has the picture of a

/caXavpo^r

repre-

sented as a shephe rd s crook or boom e-

rang, thus supporting the traditional

meaning of the word. Th e Latin Monu-

m ents of Chios may call attention to the

rich rem ains of castellated arch itectu re

in the Levant, and the many records

of the Italian occupation. Mr. Wood-

ward brings some important evidence

as to the building of the Parth eno n,

from which it appears that the pediment

sculptures were executed by others

than Pheidias

himself

who probably

was not in Athens at th e time. No

doubt he designed them, but others

carved them . Folklore plays a con-

siderable part in this volume, not only

in the note on the Hybristika, but in

Mr. W ac e s valuable accoun t of certain

North Greek festivals. In this he gives

the traditional songs and a num ber of

photographs. Another indication of the

importance of modern Greece for the

knowledge of anti qui ty is Mr. Haw es s

paper on Some Dorian Descendants:

he finds that there is much resemblance

between Albanians, Izakonians, and

Sphakians (why are they called Spha-

kiots

?

they call themselves Sphakians),

and that their claim to Dorian ancestry

is not withoutreason. Am ongst the in-

scriptions for Praesos one Ete ocre tan

fragment appears, but no key.

W. H. D . ROUS E .

Die metrische und rhythmische Komp osi-

tion der Komo dien des Aristophanes.

C.

CONRADT.

Pp . 40, 43. Parts 2

and 3. Le ipz ig: Fock , 1911, 1912.

DR. CONRADT

continues and apparently

concludes his numerical analysis of the

lines making up the plays, and the

divisions of the plays, of Aristophanes.

It results as before (C. R. 24, 219) that

they are invariably multiples of the

number 14. Th us in the

Frogs

lines

1-673 make 49x14, 674-737 4x14,

738-1118

8 X

14, and 1119-1433 28 x 14,

or 109 x 14 alto get he r; and smaller divi-

sions turn out to be smaller multiples

of the sam e num ber. Occasionally this

entails division at rathe r arbitrary p oints,

and some alleged loss or insertion of

verses h as now and th en to be conceded.

The writer finds it of course impossible

to maintain that the composition by

sevens or fourteens is always, or even

usually, well-marked, althoug h he makes

it emerge upon examination; and I am

not sure that he will convince scholars

of the system which he takes so much

pains to establish and which he holds

th a t A ristophanes took so much p ains

to observe.

H E R B E R T R I C H A R D S .

C I C E R O A D A T T I C U M .

Cicero s Letters to Atticus, with an

English Translation by E. O. W I N -

STEDT, M.A. Vol. I. Loeb Classical

Series. He inem ann , 1912. 5s. net.

IN this volume, the first of eight,

Mr. Winstedtwho has undertaken the

formidable task of translating the whole

of Cice ro s lettersreaches t he end of

ad Atticum V I. H e may be fairly con-

gratu lated on his work. It is accu rate

and readable, and, rarest of virtues in

a translation, intelligible without the

original. Novelties there are n on e: the

law and the prop hets, Tyrrell and Purser

in particular, have been treated with

punctilious respect. T he text is eclectic

and jud ici ou s; and it is satisfactory to

find tha t Mr. W insted t discards the hate-

ful obelus, and, if the tradition is faulty,

pri nts a conjecture with out insisting

upon certitude.

In the article of style, ther e is noth ing

of the Polite Letter-Writer about Mr.

Winstedt: in fact, his affection for the

vernacular is apt to blur the light and

shade of the L ati n. Cicero, for exam ple,

writes with deliberate balance: Etenim,

cum multos dies aures meas Acutilio de-

dissem,

emus sermonis genus tibi notum esse

arbitror, non mihi grave duxi scriberead te

de illius querimoniis, cum eas audire, quod

erat subodiosum, leve putassem. Sed abs te

ipso,

qui me accusas, unas mihi scito litteras

redditas esse, cum et otii ad scribendum

plus etfacultatem dandi maiorem habueris.

H is translato r is content with a homelier

simp licity: It was not the bother of

w riting you an accoun t of his grievances

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T H E C L A SS IC A L R E V I E W

th at I shirked. I spent several days

listening to him, and you know his way

of talking, and I did not mind though it

was a bit of a bore. Tho ugh you grumble

at me, I ve only had one letter from you,

let me tell you, and you have had more

time to write and a better chance of

sending letters than I ve had. It was

hopeless to expect the

boni viri

to be

oth er tha n co nservatives; but why should

theimprobi be socialists

?

The syllogism

is invalidpossibly in bo th cases and

the general reader, for whom the series

is partially designed, might develop

curious views upon the political situa-

tion at Rom e. But Mr. W inste dt is

modern throughout. A nimadverteram

becomes I had spotted ; me miserum

poor dev il ;valde perturbati in an awful

muddle. Ve ttiusis jum ped o n (Cicero

says rep reh en de d ), and is prevented

from turning King s eviden ce ; Atticus

inquires, perhaps pardonably, who th e

deuce are the Pindenissitae, and is in-

formed that the ju ry were a rotten lot.

We meet with Bedlam, money-lending

Jews,

Hobson and his choice, pashas,

and sheikhs. Th e modern note is also

heard in phrases such a s you know who

I mea n, I will write oftener and fuller,

too out of pocket, and so forth.

In dealing w ith Cicero s Greek, Mr.

Winstedt follows the old convention: if

there is not a French phrase handy, he

has recourse to slangpresumably on

the ground that it is, at least, not Eng-

lish. As a rule, he applies the m ethod

dexterously enough, though sometimes

the salt has unquestionably lost his

savour: so , for insta nce, when t he pretty

nonlocciacteon reappears as must not

give a button for . . .

To return to the general reader,

Mr. Winstedt would have shown a little

more regard for his inter ests, had he filled

his frugal seven pages of introduction

with an outline of the circumstances in

which the letters were w ritten. T he

symbols

MCZ,

etc., are in themselves

vaevTa a-vveroiat, and a mat ter of

perfect indifference to everyone else.

Similarly, the index might have been pu t

to a be tter use, if one half had been elimi-

nated and a skeleton biography attached

to a few of the mo st prom inent na m es: it

is sheer waste of time to enumerate the

pages on which the word Roma occurs.

Mr. W insted t says tha t his notes have

been confined to cases wh ere they

seemed absolutely necessary. Bu t what

is hisclientele ? How are we to envisage

the reader who has to be told, some

scores of times, how many sesterces go

to a given number of pounds; who is

unaw are th at Aristarch us was an Alex-

andrine grammarian noted especially for

his criticism of the Ho m eric p oems, in

which he detected many spurious verses,

or th at A rchilochus was a Greek poet

of Paros who w rote scathing verses ;

while, at the same time, everything is

sun-clear to him the moment he learns

th a t Caesar wished to give Transpadane

Gaul the full civitas; in which case they

would become amunicipium and elect a

yearly board of

quattuorviri

instead of

duoviri ?

Th ese are small ma tters , however, and

Mr. W ins ted t has deserved well of his

readers and of the series in which his

book figures.

J. JACKSON.

Q. Horati Flacci Carmina recensuit

F R I D E R I C U S V O L L M E R . Ed i t io

Major Iter ata et Co rrecta. Pp.

viii + 404. Lipsiae in aedibu s B . G.

Teubner i . MCMXII .

T H I S is a new edition of the Horace

which appeared in the Teubner series

in 1907, and which was noticed in the

Classical Review,

vol. xxii. It p resents

practically no fresh features that call

for special notic e. In th e previous

edition several conjectural emendations

were advanced by the editor in the

critical notes, though none of them

were adm itted to the te xt. Some of

these conjectures are now omitted, and

some new ones are introduced, and

these modifications and a few minor

corrections are the only changes the

book exhibits. T he same intricate and

novel classification of the MSS. is re-

tained and, as before, without any

detailed explanation or discussion.

Such explanation must still be sought

in various articles in the Philologns, th e

Rheinisches Museum,the Deutsche Liter-

arische Zeitung, and Hermes. The

article in the latter journal in parti-

cular contains a reassertion of the

position the edito r has take n up . It