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Horace, Epistles 1.2.42–43 and Traditional Lore

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Philip A. Stadter
Philip A. Stadter
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University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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Stephanie West suggested in a note in this journal (40 (1990), 280) that the presence of an anecdote in Lodovico Guicciardini's sixteenth-century L'Hore di Ricreatione furnishes a parallel for the fable alluded to by Horace, Ep. 1.2.42–3: ‘Rusticus exspectat dum defluat amnis: at ille / labitur et labetur in omne volubilis aevum.’ The parallels, and a third from nineteenth-century Sicily, allow her to imagine a tale, ‘part of Italian traditional lore’, already extant in Horace's time and presumably transmitted in rural regions down to Guicciardini and the Sicilian story-teller.

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Shorter Notes
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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 43 , Issue 1 , May 1993 , pp. 341 - 342
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1993

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References

1 Guicciardini, Lodovico, L'Ore di ricreazione, a cura di Anne-Marie Van Passen (Rome, Bulzoni editore, 1990)Google Scholar. This fable is number 208.

2 Guicciardini, , op. cit., p. 11Google Scholar.

3 Guicciardini, , op. cit., no. 50 (Ars poet. 139)Google Scholar; 64 (Ep. 1.2.57); 333 (Ep. 1.2.40).

4 Numbers 64 and 333 were already present in an earlier version made by Guicciardini, , Detti e fatti piacevoli e gravi (Venice, 1565)Google Scholar; no. 208, which actually invents a story, does not appear until the first edition of L'Ore (Antwerp, 1568).