[en] This study aims to define the ways in which the work of Fronto circulated
and was used in the intellectual circles of the fourth century A.D. through the
testimony offered by the letters of Symmachus. In addressing illustrious members
of the senatorial aristocracy of his time, Symmachus echoes Fronto’s work several
times. The examination of Symm. Ep. 3.11 to Naucellius, with special reference to
the expression spectator tibi veteris monetae solus supersum in Symm. Ep. 3.11.2,
allows us to evaluate how Symmachus approaches the work of Fronto. The ways
in which the short treatise ad M. Aurelium de orationibus is reprised lead us, further,
to conclude that the lexical choices of the fourth-century letter-writer were
determined by a textual variant in the text of Fronto available to him.
Disciplines :
Classical & oriental studies
Author, co-author :
Fascione, Sara ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Mondes anciens
Language :
Italian
Title :
Letture e lezioni frontoniane nell’epistolario di Simmaco
