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This textbook is an annotated student’s edition with a translation of the First Catilinarian Speech, a rhetorical speech that Marcus Tullius Cicero gave to the senate in the year of his consulship in 63 B.C. accusing a senator, Lucius Sergius Catilina of treason. The book is addressed mainly to undergraduate and postgraduate students, but also to the educated general reader. It includes four introductory chapters: Roman rhetoric, the life and work of Cicero, the historical background of the speech, and special topics on the First Catilinarian Speech (purpose of the speech, generic classification, metaphorical imagery, editorial issues, comparison of the First Catilinarian speech with the other three Catilinarian speeches, philosophical echoes, the reception of the Catilinarian discourses from antiquity to the present day). Six chapters follow each articulated in six sections (introductory note, text, vocabulary, translation, commentary, bibliography). The textbook makes extensive use of multimedia material, such as pictures, maps, videos, audio files, etc. Graphs and tables with chronologies and various historical data are also used for a better understanding of the work., Το σύγγραμμα αυτό είναι μια χρηστική έκδοση του Πρώτου Κατιλινιακού λόγου, που εκφώνησε ο Μάρκος Τούλλιος Κικέρωνας τη χρονιά της υπατείας του, το 63 π.Χ., κατηγορώντας τον συγκλητικό Λεύκιο Σέργιο Κατιλίνα ότι συνωμοτεί για να ανατρέψει το δημοκρατικό πολίτευμα. Το σύγγραμμα απευθύνεται κυρίως σε προπτυχιακούς και μεταπτυχιακούς φοιτητές φιλολογικών τμημάτων, αλλά και στον πεπαιδευμένο γενικό αναγνώστη. Περιλαμβάνει τέσσερα εισαγωγικά κεφάλαια για τη ρωμαϊκή ρητορική, τον βίο και το έργο του Κικέρωνα, το ιστορικό υπόβαθρο του λόγου, καθώς και ειδικά θέματα για τον Πρώτο Κατιλινιακό λόγο (σκοπός και ειδολογική κατάταξη του λόγου, εικονοποιία, εκδοτικά ζητήματα λόγω μεταγενέστερης δημοσίευσης του λόγου, σύγκριση του Πρώτου Κατιλινιακού με τους άλλους τρεις Κατιλινιακούς λόγους, φιλοσοφικά στοιχεία, πρόσληψη των Κατιλινιακών λόγων από την αρχαιότητα μέχρι τη σημερινή εποχή). Ακολουθούν έξι κεφάλαια που αρθρώνονται το καθένα σε έξι ενότητες (εισαγωγικό σημείωμα, κείμενο, λεξιλόγιο, μετάφραση, σχόλια, βιβλιογραφία). Το βιβλίο κάνει εκτεταμένη χρήση πολυμεσικού υλικού, όπως εικόνων, χαρτών, βίντεο, ηχητικών αρχείων κλπ. Για την καλύτερη κατανόηση του έργου χρησιμοποιούνται επίσης γραφήματα και πίνακες με χρονολόγια και διάφορα ιστορικά στοιχεία.

The ERC project PAGES (Priscian’s Ars Grammatica in European Scriptoria), led by Michela Rosellini at Sapienza University of Rome, sets forth to produce a new critical edition of the Ars, a long-time desideratum in Latin philology. PAGES applies the Lachmannian method with the aim of producing both a print and a digital critical edition, based on a new comprehensive recensio of the manuscript and early print tradition of the work. The first part of the paper focuses on the digital methodology of the project, which provides additional features that the print medium could not have hosted. The digital infrastructure is built around Cadmus, a modular open source software framework whose data structures allow to model complex objects with more flexibility than through the TEI-XML single-hierarchy structure (although Cadmus can still export to TEI-XML). In the instance of Cadmus tailored for PAGES, Priscian’s Latin text with critical apparatus and English translation is integrated with: diplomatic transcriptions of the Greek parts and the literary fragments in the Ars; collections of the early medieval glosses on Priscian’s Graeca and of the Humanistic interpolations in the Ars; a catalogue of Priscian’s 8th-10th-century mss. Digital markup will be provided for the literary citations and the linguistic content of the work. The second part of the paper presents the first outcomes of the collation, with particular regard to the geographical characterisation of the main traditional branches. Not only the southern-Italian tradition is independent of the Carolingian one, as De Nonno demonstrated long ago, but within the Carolingian branch it is possible to detect several manuscripts higher in the stemma than the witnesses used by the former editor, Hertz (1855-59). Another important feature of the transmission is the derivation of surviving witnesses or even lost hyparchetypes from multiple antigraphs: the textual and codicological evidence demonstrates that several manuscripts change their position within the stemma from one section of the Ars to another. The better understanding of the medieval tradition enables various improvements of the constitutio textus, as it will be shown through selected examples.P, A talk delivered online at the conference "Text and Textuality", Durham University, 15 July 2021.

[eng] This doctoral dissertation consists of a catalogue of those inscribed lead tablets found in the Western Mediterranean which can be dated to between the late sixth and the late first centuries BCE. In other words, it includes all the inscriptions on this medium that can be placed between the earliest examples and the end of the Roman Republic. The reign of Augustus represents a milestone in terms of epigraphic habits, generally speaking but also, in particular, regarding the use of lead tablets as a medium for inscriptions. From a geographical point of view, the Western Mediterranean has provided us with inscriptions coming from Sicily, Italy, the coasts of Gaul and Spain, and the western part of the Roman province of Africa, namely the region of Carthage. As far as the language of the texts is concerned, it has to be reminded that, before the Roman conquest and much later after it, this whole area was inhabited by a series of peoples speaking very different languages, both Indo-European and non-Indo-European. The main part of the corpus is written in Greek and, more precisely, in the Doric dialects from Sicily and southern Italy, though there are also inscriptions in Ionic and in Koine Greek, alongside many instances of dialect mixing. The Italic branch has provided us with lead tablets inscribed in Oscan and Latin, as has the Celtic family, with a few texts in Gaulish and one in Celtiberian. Another important part of the catalogue entries come from non-Indo-European speaking regions. The second main contributor to the corpus is Iberian, a language in which more than one hundred lead sheets, coming from the coast between the River Hérault in southern France and the River Segura in Murcia and Alacant, are written. The Etruscans have also yielded several documents. In Punic there are only a handful of lead tablets, of which only one has been read so far, while three sheets from modern-day Andalusia, inscribed in the local, semi-syllabic script, does not appear to be in Iberian but in a language which might correspond to Turdetanian, still very badly known. As for the type of inscriptions found on lead tablets, curses or defixiones continue to be the most numerous group of texts. They are written not only in the three colonial languages—Greek, Punic, and Latin—, but also in Oscan and Etruscan, whereas the use of binding màgic among the Iberians has not yet been confirmed. Other religious inscriptions, such as leges sacrae or abecedaria, are also attested. Besides, we cannot disregard the abundance of inscriptions on lead belonging to the sphere of everyday life, such as private letters, contracts, and, above all, a set of Iberian sheets concerning economic activities. In these, despite our difficulties in understanding the language, there is no doubt that numerals, measurement units, and words belonging to the lexical field of money are mentioned next to personal names., [cat] El nucli d’aquesta tesi doctoral està integrat per un catàleg de les làmines de plom inscrites del Mediterrani Occidental que poden datar-se entre la fi del segle VI i la fi de l’I ane, és a dir, dels primers testimonis fins a la caiguda de la República. D’un punt de vista geogràfic, la regió ens ha fornit inscripcions procedents de Sicília, Itàlia, les costes de la Gàl·lia i de la península Ibèrica, i l’àrea de Cartago. Quant a la llengua dels textos, la major part del corpus és escrit en grec i, més precisament, en els dialectes dòrics de Sicília i del sud d’Itàlia, encara que hi ha també inscripcions en jònic i en grec koiné, a més de nombrosos exemples de barreja de dialectes. La branca de les llengües itàliques ens ha proporcionat ploms escrits en osc i en llatí, com també la família cèltica, amb qualque text gal i un de celtibèric. Pel que fa a les regions de parla no indoeuropea, la segona llengua més emprada al corpus és l’ibèric, amb més de cent ploms provinents de la costa entre el riu Erau a Occitània i el riu Segura a Múrcia i Alacant. La resta dels documents estan en etrusc o en púnic, si bé resten tres làmines andaluses, inscrites en l’escriptura semisil·làbica local, que no semblen en llengua ibèrica sinó probablement turdetana, encara molt mal coneguda. Quant al tipus d’inscripcions presents als ploms, les tauletes de maledicció representen el grup més nombrós de textos. Es documenten encara altres inscripcions religioses, com les lleis sagrades o els alfabetaris. D’altra banda, no pot ésser menystingut el nombre de ploms enquadrables dins l’esfera de la vida quotidiana, com ara lletres privades, contractes i, sobretot, un conjunt de làmines ibèriques que testimonien activitats de tipus econòmic, làmines en les quals no hi ha dubte que s’esmenten numerals, unitats de mesura i termes del camp lèxic de la moneda al costat de noms personals.

[cat] En aquesta tesi doctoral presentem un estudi sobre els actors de mim i mimògrafs grecoromans a l’Antiguitat a partir de l’anàlisi de la documentació epigràfica i papiràcia del món antic, una font d’informació sovint negligida pels estudiosos del drama i que tanmateix ens ajuda a comprendre millor aquest espectacle en gran part encara desconegut, en aportar dades que amb freqüència complementen la informació que ens proporcionen els pocs fragments de mim que ens han arribat i que fins i tot contradiuen la imatge del mim que ens forneixen les fonts literàries. L’estudi se centra en l’examen d’aspectes concrets que ens permeten aprofundir en el nostre coneixement de la figura de l’actor de mim i el mimògraf, com ara llur sexe i edat, llur condició jurídica, llurs especialitzacions artístiques i la formació de companyies i associacions d’actors de mim, i també en l’anàlisi de qüestions com l’ús de noms artístics per part dels actors, els motius i llocs comuns presents en llurs inscripcions o els aspectes de l’acció dramàtica d’un actor de mim que evidencia la documentació, entre d’altres. Així mateix, presentem també un corpus format pels 186 documents epigràfics i papiracis en llatí, grec i copte referents a actors de mim i mimògrafs que hem analitzat per poder realitzar l’estudi, per tal que els estudiosos del mim grecoromà i del drama antic en general disposin d’un recull actualitzat d’una documentació dispersa en un gran nombre de publicacions diverses que no sempre estan a l’abast de l’investigador. En el corpus hem reunit no només aquells documents que fan referència de forma inequívoca a actors de mim i mimògrafs, sinó que també hem afegit aquells que documenten possibles artistes relacionats amb el mim, així com documents que hom ha considerat relatius a actors de mim però que a parer nostre no haurien de formar part del corpus: el motiu de llur inclusió és poder argumentar per què no fan referència a actors de mim. D’altra banda, hem procurat d’oferir per a cada document una descripció del suport, una transcripció acurada del text, una actualització bibliogràfica i una traducció i comentari de cada peça, que esperem que siguin útils per als qui consultin aquest treball., [eng] It is the aim of this thesis to present a study on Greco-Roman mime actors and mimographers in Antiquity from the analysis of ancient inscriptions and papyri, a source of information that has often been neglected by the scholar community but which enables us to achieve a better understanding of this still obscure form of entertainment by complementing our knowledge of ancient mime from the scarce number of mime fragments that have reached our age and by providing us with a unique view on the subject, quite different in many ways from the severity with which ancient authors have often treated this dramatic genre. The study focuses on the examination of various subjects concerning mime actors and mimographers, such as their sex and age, legal status, artistic specialisations and the organisation of mime actors in troupes and colleges, as well as the use of stage names by mime actors, the motifs and commonplaces found in their inscriptions or aspects concerning mime performances, among other topics. Moreover, it is also offered in this thesis a corpus of the 186 Greek, Latin and Coptic documents referring to mime actors and mimographers analysed in the study, so that scholars interested in Greco-Roman mime and ancient drama may have an up-to- date collection of inscriptions and papyri that cannot always be easily reached because of the considerable number of works in which the documentation is dispersed. The corpus not only collects documents which can undoubtedly be ascribed to ancient mime actors and mimographers, but also inscriptions and papyri which may refer to possible mimic artists, as well as documents considered by other scholars to be related to mime actors but which in our view should be excluded from the corpus: the reason of their being included here is for us to be able to argue why they do not refer to mime actors. Furthermore, we have endeavoured to provide for each of the documents collected in the corpus a description of the document, an accurate transcription of its text, an up-to- date bibliography, and a translation and comment, which we hope may be of use to the reader.

V magistrskem delu je obravnavan latinski spis z naslovom Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hierosolymitanorum, ki opisuje dogodke 1. križarske vojne. Kroniko, ki jo je ok 1100-1101 napisal nek neznani avtor, so kot vir uporabljali številni poznejši pisci. V prvem delu so predstavljeni zgodovinsko ozadje, drugi avtorji, ki pišejo o 1. križarski vojni, kaj je znanega o anonimnem piscu, posebnosti njegovega jezika in stila in rokopisno izročilo, v drugem delu pa latinsko besedilo s komentarjem in prevodom v slovenski jezik. V komentarju so obrazložena težje razumljiva mesta, geografski pojmi, nastopajoče osebe in kronološka vprašanja. Jezik anonimnega pisca vsebuje elemente klasične, srebrne in pozne latinščine, je zgoščen, razumljiv, vendar stilno precej neizbrušen. Zapletenejše stavčne konstrukcije so redke, besedotvorje in skladnja pa glede na klasično normo precej poenostavljeni. Avtorjeva značilnost so tudi razne poenostavitve, na primer izpuščanje h-ja in spreminjanje diftongov v samoglasnike, uporablja pa tudi jezik poezije, liturgije in Svetega pisma. Poleg svetopisemskih citatov so v pripoved vpletene tudi čudežne zgodbe, ki jih avtor razume kot poseg boga, ki naj bi želel pomagati križarjem. Razmeroma pogosta je tudi uporaba premega govora, bodisi s kratkimi citati, posamičnimi stavki ali tudi z nekoliko daljšimi govori posameznikov. V jezikovnem pogledu predstavlja spis Gesta Francorum odličen primer latinščine v času njenega postopnega prehoda v romanske jezike. The master's thesis deals with the chronicle of the First Crusade by an anonymous author entitled Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hierosolymitanorum. Composed ca. 1100-1101 this account was used by many later writers as a source. The first part of the thesis examines the historical background, other writen sources for the First Crusade, what is known about the anonymous author, the peculiarities of his language and style and manuscript tradition. The second part presents the Latin text of the original, translation into Slovene and commentary. In the commentary more complex issues, geographical terms, persons and chronological questions are explained. The anonymous writer's language contains elements of classical, silver and late Latin. It is concise, understandable, but stylistically either rough, unpolished and unadorned. The sentences are rarely complex, the vocabulary is relatively limited. The author features various simplifications, such as omitting of h, switching diphthongs to vowels and uses also the language of poetry, liturgy and the Bible. In addition to quotations from the Bible, the narrative contains also various stories of miraculous events of which he was convicted that God intervened to help the crusaders. Direct speech is used relatively often, either with short quotations, individual sentences, or even slightly longer speeches by individuals. It is clear that the standards of the Latinity used in the Gesta Francorum belong to the time when Latin was gradualy turning into Romance.

Este trabajo ofrece la edición crítica (basada en la autopsia del soporte) y el comentario filológico de dos inscripciones de la Galia lugdunense, con especial atención al mensaje afectivo y elogioso que toma como modelo un hexámetro conocido, con reflexiones sobre los límites entre lo formular y lo métrico en composiciones de estas características. This paper offers the critical edition and the philological commentary on two inscriptions from Gallia Lugdunensis, based on the autopsy of the pieces. It devotes special attention to the affective and laudatory message based on a well known hexameter. It further offers reflections on the limits between metric or for-mulaic compositions in this kind of inscriptions. Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (MICINN). España PGC2018-095981-B-I00

Llucià, en l'obra en què descriu -no pas benèvolament- la mort de Peregrí, afirma que, durant un cert temps, aquest personatge mantingué una estreta relació amb els cristians, queel tenien en gran estima i l'anomenaven "nou Sòcrates".

Este trabajo ofrece la edición crítica (basada en la autopsia del soporte) y el comentario filológico de dos inscripciones de la Galia lugdunense, con especial atención al mensaje afectivo y elogioso que toma como modelo un hexámetro conocido, con reflexiones sobre los límites entre lo formular y lo métrico en composiciones de estas características. This paper offers the critical edition and the philological commentary on two inscriptions from Gallia Lugdunensis, based on the autopsy of the pieces. It devotes special attention to the affective and laudatory message based on a well known hexameter. It further offers reflections on the limits between metric or for-mulaic compositions in this kind of inscriptions. Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (MICINN). España PGC2018-095981-B-I00