The Epigrams of Rufinus by D.L. Page
By D.L. Page
Not anything is understood of the Greek poet Rufinus except that he used to be the writer of a set of thirty-nine epigrams. in reality he's such an insubstantial determine that his date has been positioned at numerous issues inside of approximately part a millennium. Professor web page the following provides a textual content of Rufinus' poems and a concise remark on them. In his advent he considers the factors during which a date could be verified and unearths facts in favour of the fourth century advert.
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Gravitas may describe a paragon of behavior, but it may also reveal a pathology. A Freudian psychologist would describe the early Romans as a people with an overdeveloped superego. The superego, as A. A. Brill defined it, is a precipitate of all the prohibitions and inhibitions, all the rules which are impressed upon the child by his parents and parental substitutes. 45 These very same words serve as a precise definition of mos maiorum, the rules imposed upon the Romans by various parental figures, not the least of whom was pater Aeneas!
Lysidamus in the Casino, echoes this same sentiment when he remarks, "my wife is torturing me — by staying alive" (line 227). Plautus also deals ironically with the acknowledged wifely virtue of obedience (Cistellaria 175): 26- ROMAN LAUGHTER Ea diem suom obiit, facta morigera est viro. 31 Clearly the Romans loved this sort of joke, for Caecilius, in the passage quoted on p. 24, presents the very same pleasantry with a few words changed: Placere occepit graviter, postquam emortuast. She really pleased me as a wife — after she died.
69 All Greeks were descendants of Sinon, the arch liar who deceived the people of Aeneas. Virgil is anything but gentle in his treatment of this incident. He insists on the baseness and guile of all Greeks; to know one is to know all. 56 disguises this prejudice as history; you can always trust a Roman, you can never trust a Greek. 71 Perhaps the most famous example is Graeca fides (Asinaria 199), an instance where a single adjective can transform the Latin word for honesty, devotion, and faithfulness72 to its polar opposite.