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Lucia Floridi (ed.). Lucillio, Epigrammi: Introduzione, testo critico, traduzione e commento . Texte und Kommentare 47. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2014. Pp. x, 662. euro129.95. ISBN 978-3-11-033616-0.
Lucillius, the most cutting Greek epigrammatic poet, amply deserves a modern edition of his poems-and, thanks to Floridi's excellent book, one of the more significant sources of Martial's well-known wittiness and sharpness can now be studied and appreciated in a fully satisfactory way.
The Greek text and the Italian translation of Lucillius' 142 epigrams (including five dubia and ten spuria) are preceded by a rich introduction, almost one hundred pages long, where Floridi deals with the poet's life and his relation to the emperor Nero; his prominent position within the genre of the scoptic epigram; the language and the style of his poems; the structure of his books of epigrams; and his fortune in late Latin, Greek, and Byzantine satiric poetry.
Floridi dedicates a long section of her introduction to the manuscript...