Monday, November 26, 2018
Bungled Quotation of an Inscription
Simon Goldhill, Who Needs Greek? Contests in the Cultural History of Hellenism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), p. 60:
Id., p. 65:
Both quotations of the inscription (Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum VI.896) are faulty. For L.P. read L.F.
With abbreviations expanded:
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The desire 'to be sung', 'to be on the lips of all', is the motivational drive of hero and writer and family man alike. From epic to history, from gravestone to the huge letters M. AGRIPPA L.P. COS. TERTIUM FECIT on the Pantheon in Rome, making a name solid, permanent, an inheritance to pass on, is the express aim of social ambition.
Id., p. 65:
That Lucian immortalizes his name thus in a third-rate epigram by a fictionalized and untrustworthy poet on a monument in an unseeable afterlife, recorded in a work which boasts of its own falsehood, neatly summarizes Lucian's oblique and funny stance towards proclaiming and preserving the glory of his name. M. AGRIPPA L.P. COS. TERTIUM FECIT this isn't.
Both quotations of the inscription (Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum VI.896) are faulty. For L.P. read L.F.
With abbreviations expanded:
M(arcus) Agrippa L(uci) f(ilius) co(n)s(ul) tertium fecit.
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