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Grattius may have been a native of [[Falerii]]<ref>'' |
Grattius may have been a native of [[Falerii]]<ref>See ''e.g.'' {{Cite EB1911|Grattius}}</ref> but this assertion rests on the doubtful authority of a single lost manuscript, employed in an early printing. The only reference to him in any extant ancient writer is a passing reference in [[Ovid]], ''Ex Ponto''.<ref>Ovid, ''Ex Ponto'', iv.16.33</ref> |
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Grattius was a Roman poet of the age of Augustus (63 BC – 14 AD). He was the author of a Cynegeticon, a poem on hunting, of which 541 hexameter lines remain, preserved in a manuscript of c. 800 AD.[1] He describes various kinds of game, methods of hunting, and the best breeds of horses and dogs, using a fairly regular hexameter to do so.[2]
Life
Grattius may have been a native of Falerii[3] but this assertion rests on the doubtful authority of a single lost manuscript, employed in an early printing. The only reference to him in any extant ancient writer is a passing reference in Ovid, Ex Ponto.[4]
Purpose
Grattius stresses the role of ratio (reason) in hunting, seeing it as a civilising endeavour in the tradition of Hercules, as opposed to indulgence in luxuria.[5]
See also
Notes
- ^ H. J. Rose, A Handbook of Latin Literature (1966) p. 339
- ^ H. J. Rose, A Handbook of Latin Literature (1966) p. 340
- ^ See e.g. Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
{{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ Ovid, Ex Ponto, iv.16.33
- ^ P. Tooley, Melancholy, Love and Time (2004) p. 242-3
External links
- Cynegeticon, Latin text from J. Wight Duff and Arnold M. Duff, Loeb Classical Library Minor Latin Poets, vol. I; and English translation at LacusCurtius.
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