La duplice prex del carme 13 di Sidonio Apollinare

• Autores: Tiziana Brolli
• Localización: Wiener Studien: Zeitschrift für Klassische Philologie und Patristik, ISSN 0084-005X, Nº. 133, 2020, págs. 215-236
• Idioma: italiano
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• Resumen

  • This paper focuses on Sidonius Apollinaris’s poem 13, which consists of 40 verses (10 elegiacs followed by 20 Phalaecian hendecasyllables). The polymetric composition which is addressed to the emperor Majorian, asks for a tax remission in both sections and it is generally dated back to December 458 CE or soon after. In the first part our study aims to support the emendation hic triones proposed by Stefania Santelia instead of the manuscript reading histriones (l. 19), which is emended to Geryones or Geryonen by most editors. In the second part one suggests that the metre changes because the two distinct pleas were composed at different times. It seems most likely that the first part, in elegiac couplets, was written close in time to Majorian’s Panegyric and the second, in hendecasyllables, in 461 CE (here, oddly enough, there is no reference to Majorian’s expedition against Geiseric while, on the contrary, the poet promises to celebrate his victories over the Salian Franks). Probably the first petition had not been accepted by Majorian and when the emperor returned to Gaul from his Vandal campaign, Sidonius composed a new poem in Phalaecian hendecasyllables preceded by the one in elegiacs, which was still unpublished at that time.