Department of Greek and Latin Philology

Contents
Prólogo
1. El bello Coridón
2. “Vexatus ille” (Horacio, Epodo 2)
3. Non ego nunc tristis uereor, mea Cynthia, Manis. Notas sobre Propercio, I 19
4. Ovidio, sobre el nacimiento del amor (Met. I 452-567)
5. Los coliambos de las sátiras de Persio
6. Marcial y Erotion (V 37)
7. Inque uices equitant ac Luna teste mouentur (Juvenal VI 311)
8. Carta de Deyanira a Hércules
9. El libro segundo de las Cartas desde el Ponto de Ovidio
10. Augusto en el Ibis de Ovidio

Some doubt has been expressed as to whether the prologus of the work of Persius, or, as some manuscripts' would have it, the epilogus, traditionally ascribed to the satires, is genuine. However, these choliambs are aimed at the same target as the satires to which they are attached, and while appearing to be a statement of literary principles, can be seen as a moral and political denunciation of corruption in Nero's Rome. Right from the start, we feel the full bite of Persius' art. His lips (labra,, "thick lips"), he says, have not made off (prolui) with the trough (labra„ "trough, bath") of the colt Pegasus (caballino), disrespectful terms which he applies not only to Nero's poetasters and to the Emperor himself, nor has he drunk from it. But it must be concluded that true poets are first born and then confirmed by endeavour, but not by misappropriating dreams and poetic waters or from some sudden illusory spring. In pallidam one can detect the se...