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APPENDIX OF AUTHORS AND WORKS
(66.10 and 157.21 Barwick), and the author of several poems under the name Florus in
the Anthologia Latina. Charisius' mention of the name Annius supports identification
with the writer of the dialogue. The further identification with the writer of the
epitome is at best uncertain. To coalesce epitomator, rhetorician, and poet into one
provides a tempting solution to many problems, but not a solution readily acceptable,
when the nomenclature offered by our MSS is so various. Two men of similar name
could have been writing at much the same time.
WORKS
Short poems on various themes, and letters.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Partly as for last entry but one. Add Anth. Lat. 1.1.119-21 and 200-2; J. W. and A. M.
Duff, Minor Latin poets (Loeb, 1935) 423-35.
MELA, POMPONIUS
LIFE
Dates of birth and death unknown, but was writing during early part of Claudius 9
principate. From Tingentera in Spain (2.96).
WORKS
Geography, De chorograpkia, in three books. Completed late A.D. 43 or early 44 (3.49
conquest of Britain accomplished but Claudius' triumph still to come): see G. Wissowa,
Hermes 51 (1916) 89-96. Apparently (1.2, though the passage has been interpreted
otherwise), M. planned to write more fully on the same subject, but whether he did so
is unknown: see P. Parroni, R.F.I.C. 96 (1968) 184-97.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
TEXTS AND COMMENTARY: TEXTS: G. Parthey (Berlin 1867); C. Frick
(BT, 1880); G. Ranstrand (Goteborg 1971: with index), COMMENTARY: C. H.
Tzschucke (Leipzig 1806—7).
STUDIES: E. H. Bunbury, A history ofancient geography II (London 1879) 352-70;
H. Oertel, Ober den Sprachgebrauch des Pomponius Mela (Erlangen 1898); A. Klotz,
Quaestiones Plinianae geographicae (Berlin 1906); D. Detlefsen, Die Ceographie
Afrihas bei Plinius und Mela und Hire Quellen (Berlin 190S); F. Gisinger, in RE XXI
(1952) 2360-411.
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