Gaius Rabirius
Gaius Rabirius was a poet mentioned by Velleius alongside Virgil. He is also mentioned by Ovid and Quintilian. Some authorities consider him the author of a poem on Actium of which a fragment was found at Herculaneum.
Gaius Rabirius
- Born
- 100 · Rome.
- Nationality
- Ancient Rome
- Occupation
- poet
- Known for
- Flavian Palace
- Languages
- Latin
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Gaius Rabirius was a poet mentioned by Velleius alongside Virgil. He is also mentioned by Ovid and Quintilian. Some authorities consider him the author of a poem on Actium of which a fragment was found at Herculaneum.
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Papyrus fragments discovered there included sixty-seven (mutilated) hexameters, referring to the final struggle between Antony and Octavian and the death of Cleopatra. They are generally supposed to be part of a poem by Rabirius, since Seneca (De Benef. Vi. 3, i) informs us that he wrote on those subjects. If genuine, they justify the qualified commendation of Quintilian rather than the praise of Velleius Paterculus (ii. 36, 3), who couples Rabirius and Virgil as the two most eminent poets of his time. Fragments in Emil Baehrens, Fragmenta Poetarum Romanorum (1885); W. Scott, Fragmenta Herculanensia (Oxford, 1885); O. Ribbeck, Geschichte der romischen Dichtung, ii. (1889); Teuffel, History of Roman Literature (Eng. Trans, 1900), 252, 9.
The recorded working language is Latin. Works named in the authority record are Flavian Palace.
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- 1.Epistulae ex Ponto, IV 16, 5.
- 2.II 36, 3.
- 3.Frr. 230-234 Hollis.
- 4.Seneca, De beneficiis, VI 3, 1: "Mi pare davvero bello come Marco Antonio, nel poeta Rabirio, quando vede che la fortuna passa da lui ad altri e che ormai gli resta solo la possibilità di morire, ma anche questa a patto che la sfrutti immediatamente, dica: Ho ciò che ho donato.".
- 5.VII, 647-666.
- 6.Epistulae ex Ponto, IV 16, 21: velivolique maris vates ("poeta del mare pieno di vele").
- 7.Epistulae ex Ponto, IV 16, 23: quique acies Libycas Romanaque proelia dixit (e lui che cantò le schiere africane e le battaglie romane").
- 8.P. Herc. 817.
- 9.G. Garuti, C Rabirius Bellum Actiacum, Bologna 1958.
- 10.A. S. Hollis, Fragments of Roman poetry, Oxford, University Press, 2007, pp. 384-385.
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