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LUCILIUS JUNIOR

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LUCILIUS JUNIOR , a friend and correspondent of the younger See also:Seneca, probably the author of Aetna, a poem on the origin of volcanic activity, variously attributed to See also:Virgil, See also:Cornelius See also:Severus (epic poet of the Augustan See also:age) and See also:Manilius. Its See also:composition has been placed as far back as 44 B.C., on the ground that certain See also:works of See also:art, known to have been removed to See also:Rome about that date, are referred to as being at a distance from the See also:city. But as the author appears to have known and made use of the Quaesiiones Naturales of Seneca (written A.D. 65), and no mention is made of the See also:great eruption of See also:Vesuvius (A.D. 79), the See also:time of its composition seems to See also:lie between these two See also:dates. In favour of the authorship of Lucilius are the facts that he was a friend of Seneca and acquainted with his writings; that he had for some time held the See also:office of imperial See also:procurator of See also:Sicily, and was thus See also:familiar with the locality; that he was the author of a poem on Sicilian subjects. It is objected that in the 79th See also:letter of Seneca, which is the See also:chief authority on the question, he apparently asks that Lucilius should introduce the hackneyed theme of Aetna merely as an See also:episode in his contemplated poem, not make it the subject of See also:separate treatment. The See also:sources of the Aetna are See also:Posidonius of See also:Apamea, and perhaps the pseudo-Aristotelian De Mundo, while there are many reminiscences of See also:Lucretius. It has come down in a very corrupt See also:state, and its difficulties are increased by the unpoetical nature of the subject, the straining after conciseness, and the obtrusive use of See also:metaphor. See also:Editions by J. See also:Scaliger (1595), F. See also:Jacob (1826), H.

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Munro (1867), M. See also:Haupt (in his edition of Virgil, 1873), E. Bahrens (in Poetae See also:latini minores, u.), S. Sudhaus (1898), R. See also:Ellis (1901, containing a bibliography of the subject); see also M. Haupt's Opuscula, i. 4o, ii. 27, 162, iii. 437 (notes, chiefly See also:critical); R. Ellis in See also:Journal of See also:Philology, xvi.

292; P. R. Wagler, De Aetna poemate quaestiones criticae (1884); B. Kruczkiewicz, Poema de Aetna See also:

Monte (1883, in which the See also:ancient view of the authorship of Virgil is upheld); L. Al-zinger, Stadia in Aetnam collata (1896); R. See also:Hildebrandt, Beitrdge zur Erkldrung See also:des Gedichtes Aetna (1900); J. Vessereau (See also:text, See also:translation and commentary, 19o5); See also:Teuffel-See also:Schwabe, Hist. of See also:Roman Literature (Eng. trans. §§ 307, 308).

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