Number

lt.004

Title

Te quoque Vergilio…

Name of the Portuguese translation

Epithafio de Tibulo poeta tirado por Joam Rroīz em Linguajem (pt.004)

Author

Domitius Marsus

Language

Latin

Characterization

Epigram dedicated to the death of the Latin poet Albio Tibullus.

Domitius Marsus  was contemporary of Virgil, Horace and Tibullus and belonged to the circle of Maecenas. He stood out for several works, among which we find epigrams. José Justo Escalígero (a sixteenth-century author), in Fragmentum Cuiacianum Scaligeri et excerpta Perrei siue Petrei considered him the author of this epitaph, which can be found in the incipit of Vita Tibulli, a biography written by Suetonius (Paratore 1983: 475; Albrecht 1997: 823-824; Kenney / Clausen, 1989: 525). According the Codex Ambrosianus and the Codex Vaticanus, this biography comes at the end of the work of Tibullus – the Corpus Tibullianum – being preceded by this epigram, dedicated to the death of the poet.

Date

First century BC

Place

Unknown.

Extant witnesses

In Portugal there are four printed copies of the work of Tibullus, all of them connected with the edition of Bernardino Veronese (Tarrío, 2005: 167-186), so it is possible that the epigram was translated from one of them. They are in the following libraries:

- Biblioteca Nacional de Lisboa, Inc. 751 (microfilme F.R.75);

- Biblioteca da Ajuda, sala E 48-X-19;

- Biblioteca Pública Municipal do Porto, Inc. 228;

- Biblioteca Pública de Évora, Inc. 599.

Online text:

http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/suetonius/suet.tibullus.html

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Suetonius/de_Poetis/Tibullus*.html

Studies

References:

PARATORE, Ettore (1983), História da Literatura Latina. Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.

ALBRECHT, Michael von (1997), A History of Roman Literature. Leiden: Brill.

KENNEY, E. J. e Clausen (1989), W. v., Historia de la Literatura Clásica. Madrid: Editorial Gredos.

CARTAULT, Augustin (1906), A propos du "Corpus tibullianum", un siècle de philologie latine classique. Pris: Félix Alcan, Éditeur. In ftp://ftp.bnf.fr/571/N5711075_PDF_1_-1DM.pdf

FRADE, Mafalda (2012),”Dos poetas latinos aos poetas do Cancioneiro Geral: o epitáfio de Tibulo”. Ágora. Estudos Clássicos em Debate 14, 221-241.

MALTBY, Robert (2002),Tibullus: Elegies – Text, Introduction and Commentary. Cambridge: Francis Cairns.

TARRÍO, A. M. Sánchez (2001) Formación humanística y poesía romance en el Cancioneiro Geral de García de Resende. Tese de Doutoramento. Santiago de Compostela: Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 325-328.

TARRÍO, A. M. Sánchez (2005b) “Notas sobre a biblioteca do fidalgo quinhentista João Rodrigues de Sá de Meneses”: Euphrosyne 33, 167-186.

Suetónio — Vita Tibulli. In ROLFE, John C. (1997) “Suetonius”. Vol. II. Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press e Londres: W. Heinemann, 468.