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APPENDIX OF AUTHORS AND WORKS<br />

ancient epic has a similar title. Fr. i imitated at Virg. Aen. 6.62.1, 2 at Geo. 2.50(5, 3 at<br />

Geo. 3. 115 <strong>and</strong> 4 at Eel. 8.88. Of Varian epic we have nothing: recusatio at Hor. Odes<br />

r.6 implies that V. is a suitable author for Agrippa's exploits, also that he contemplated<br />

a Diomedea, but no more. A tragedy, Thyestes: produced at games for Actium 29 B.C.<br />

(Parisinus 7530); see Quint. 10.1.18, 3.8.45. Valgius Rufus <strong>and</strong> the Varus of the<br />

Eclogues have been claimed for authorship, but Tac. Dial. 12 <strong>and</strong> Quint. 3.8.45 <strong>and</strong><br />

11.3.73 are quite clear on the name. Bardon (11 82) claims other tragedies for V.,<br />

perhaps correctly. Panegyricus Augusti: attested by Porph. <strong>and</strong> ps.-Acron ad Hor.<br />

Epist. 1.16.27-9, which has been claimed as a recasting of the original; the rhythm, at<br />

any rate, is clearly that of Horace. Elegies mentioned at Porph. ad Odes. 1.6.1 have no<br />

other ancient testimony <strong>and</strong> are therefore suspect. Fragments in FPL 100— 1.<br />

BIBLIOGRAPHY<br />

R. Unger, Variide Morte eclog. reliqu. (Halle 1870); A. E. Housman, 'The Thyestes of<br />

Varius', C.Q. 11 (1917) 42-8; Schanz—Hosius 11 162-4; A. Momigliano, 'Epicureans in<br />

revolt', J.R.S. 31 (1941) 151-7; E. Bickel, S.O. 28 (1950) iooff.; Bardon 11 28-34;<br />

Nisbet <strong>and</strong> Hubbard (1970) on Hor. Odes 1.6; H. D. Jocelyn, C.Q. n.s. 30(1980) 387-<br />

400.<br />

GRATTIUS<br />

LIFE<br />

Wrote before A.D. 8 (Ovid, Pont. 4.16.34) <strong>and</strong> is often assumed to have come from<br />

Falerii (see v.40). Bella ferarum at Manil. 2.43 is an allusion to a Greek Cynegetica, not<br />

to G.<br />

WORKS<br />

An incomplete Cynegetica, in 536 lines, with five fragments. For his improbable<br />

bucolics (on the basis of Ovid, Pont. 4.16.33) see Bardon 11 58.<br />

BIBLIOGRAPHY<br />

TEXTS AND COMMENTARIES: TEXTS: PL.M I 29-53; J. W. <strong>and</strong> A.M.<br />

Duff, Minor Latin poets, 2nd ed. (Loeb, 1935). COMMENTARIES: P. J. Enk (Zutphen<br />

1918); R. Verdiere, 2 vols. (Wetteren 1964).<br />

STUDIES: M. Fiegl, Des Grattius Faliscus Cynegetica, seine Vorganger und seine<br />

Nachfolger (Gorz 1890); G. Pierleoni, 'Fu poeta Grattius?', R.F. 34 (1906) 58off.;<br />

P. H. Damste', 'Ad Grattium notulae'. Mnemosyne 53 (1925) 299*1"., J. Tolkiehn,<br />

Bursian 153 (1911) 95, <strong>and</strong> 171 (1915) 5; M. Schuster, ibid. 212 (1927) 82.<br />

863<br />

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