Abronius Silo
Abronius Silo (fl. 1st century BC) was a Latin poet who lived in the latter part of the Augustan age. Silo is mentioned in the suasoriae of Seneca the Elder.
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Abronius Silo
- Born
- 50 · Hispania.
- Died
- 100
- Nationality
- Ancient Rome
- Occupation
- poet
- Teachers
- Marcus Porcius Latro
- Languages
- Latin
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Abronius Silo (fl. 1st century BC) was a Latin poet who lived in the latter part of the Augustan age. Silo is mentioned in the suasoriae of Seneca the Elder.
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Seneca wrote that he was a pupil of the rhetorician Marcus Porcius Latro. According to Seneca, he plagiarized a poem about the Iliad from Latro. The plagiarized line read: Translated into English this quote reads: Seneca also wrote that he fathered another poet, also named Silo, who wrote poetry intended for pantomimes; Seneca considered this to be a waste of his talents.
Training under Marcus Porcius Latro is recorded. The recorded working language is Latin.
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- 1.Varianten nach Kodizes und Emendationen: Aburnius, Abronus, Apronius, Artorius; siehe Literatur, von Rhoden.
- 2.auditorem Latronis Abronium Silonem ... recitare carmen. Seneca, Suasoriae, Kapitel 2, Abschnitt 19.
- 3.patrem huius Silonis, qui pantomimis fabulas scripsit et ingenium grande non tantum deseruit sed polluit. Suas. 2, 19.
- 4.... cantandi saltandique obscena studia. Controversiae, Kapitel 1, Proömium (Vorwort), Abschnitt 8.
- 5.Vergleiche Literatur, Teuffel, S. 13, der feststellt: „Nur selten hören wir, dass namhaftere Dichter sich zur Lieferung solcher Text hergaben.“
- 6.Sententias a disertissimis viris iactatas facile in tanta hominum desidia pro suis dicunt. Contr. 1, Proöm 10.
- 7.Livius, Ovid, Seneca, Lukan und andere; siehe Textstellen bei Feddern, S. 292.
- 8.Trecenti Lacones contra Xersen missi .... deliberant, an et ipsi fugiant. Suas. 2, 1. Satz.
- 9.posse ipsos et vincere, posse certe invictos reverti (virtute) et beneficio loci, tum illam sententiam: si nihil aliud, erimus certe belli mora. Suas. 2, 19.
- 10.postea … Abronium Silonem … recitare carmen, in quo agnovimus sensum Latronis in his versibus: ít(e) agit(e), ó Danaí, magnúm paeána canéntes / íte triúmphantés: bellí mora cóncidit Héctor. Suas. 2, 19.
- 11.tam diligentes tunc auditores erant, ne dicam tam maligni, ut una syllaba surripi non posset; at nunc quilibet orationes in Verrem tuto dicet pro suo. Suas. 2, 19.
- 12.„Senca continues by opposing audiences of the past, by which he must mean those of the early Augustan Age, when Silo delivered his poem, and those of the present – probably the late 30s CE, when he likely put together the Controversiae and Suasoriae.“ Scott McGill: Plagiarism in Latin Literature. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2012, S. 168 Anmerkung 70.
- 13.quanto decentius Vergilius dixerit hoc quod valde erat celebre „belli mora concidit Hector“: „quidquid apud durae cessatum est moenia Troiae / Hectoris Aeneaeque manu victoria Graium / haesit …“ Suas. 2, 19; Vergil, Aeneis, Buch 11, Vers 288–290.
- 14.„It seems unlikely that Vergil actually took Silo as a model; a better bet is Homer's Ilias 6.77-80. Yet the fact that Seneca believed he did presupposes that Silo was the earlier poet.“ Scott McGill: Plagiarism in Latin Literature. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2012, S. 168 Anmerkung 70.
- 15.Scott McGill: Plagiarism in Latin Literature. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2012, S. 173.
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