Salpe's [Text not reproducible in ascii]: Athenaeus 322A and Plin. H.N. 28.38

Classical Quarterly

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 262-268

  Bain, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 61949191070     PISSN: 00098388     EISSN: 14716844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cq/48.1.262     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. J. N. Davidson, 'Don't try this at home: Pliny's Salpe, Salpe's Paignia and magic', CQ n.s. 45 (1995), 590-2
2. The connection between Salpe's and the of 'Democritus' had already been made by M. Wellmann, Die Georgika des Demokritos, SPAW (1921), 29 n. 3. He suggested that, like Laevius', they might have been erotopaignia, but certainly assumed that they were written in prose
3. For the most recent discussion of 'Democritus' see P. Kingsley, JWCI 57 (1995), 5ff
4. and, for an English translation of the, H.-D. Betz (ed.), The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation including the Demotic Spells (Chicago, 1992), 119ff
5. Reading rather than in 1. 170 (so K. F. W. Schmidt, GGA 196 [1934], 170 following Wessely)
6. In a text of this date there is nothing unusual syntactically about followed by the genitive (see L. Rydbeck, Fachprosa, Vermeintliche Volkssprache und neues Testament: zur Beurteilung der sprachliche Niveauunterschiede im nachklassischen Griechisch [Stadia Graeca Upsaliensia, 5, Uppsala, 1967], 46ff.), but the sense here demands a singular
7. Michael Psellus, Philosophica Minora 1, edited by J. M. Duffy (Stuttgart and Leipzig, 1992), pp. 32.65-90
8. See J.-R. Vieillefond, Les 'Cestes' de Julius Africanus. Etude sur l'ensemble des fragments avec édition, traduction et commentaires (Florence and Paris, 1970), p. 312 n. 3
9. For examples in late manuscripts see A. Delatte, Anecdota Atheniensia 1 (1927), 449 (3-7)
10. On the character of this work see D. Bain, "Treading birds": an unnoticed use of (Cyranides, 1.10.27, 1.19.9)', in E. M. Craik (ed.), Owls to Athens: Essays on Classical Subjects Presented to Sir Kenneth Dover (Oxford, 1990), pp. 295-304, and, for more detail, my forthcoming RAC entry s. v. Koeraniden
11. An example of 'a symposium at sea', for which see W. J. Slater, BICS 23 (1976), 161-70. Compare also 4.9.11ff
12. For the little that is known of Mnaseas see Maas, RE 15. 2. 2225-6
13. Compare Leonidas of Alexandria, A.P. 6.322 (see D. L. Page, Further Greek Epigrams, p. 515) (a highly appropriate reference since each line of the poem is isopsephistic, producing therefore a totally Iudic effect) and Meleager, A. P. 7.196, 5f
14. On Philetas' see G. Kuchenmüller, Philetae Coi Reliquiae (Berlin, 1928), 70ff
15. See most recently E. Voutiras, EA 24 (1995), 71
16. So most recently E. Courtney, The Fragmentary Latin Poets (Oxford, 1993), p. 119
17. M. L. West, Die griechische Dichterin Bild und Rolle (Lectio Teubneriana VI, Leipzig, 1996), p. 47, does not commit himself
18. For Hellenistic works dealing with founders of literary genres see A. Kleingünther, Untersuckungen zur Geschichte einer Fragestellung (Philologus Supplementband 26.1, Leipzig, 1933), 135ff
19. For such a mode of reference see D. Bain, '?Bo.tiades: an abusive Graffito from Thorikos', ZPE 104 (1994), 33-5
20. Fish-names were not uncommon as nicknames: see L. Robert, Nona indigènes dans l'Asie-mineure, première partie (Paris, 1963), p. 167ff., who actually cites (p. 168 n. 6) a modern Greek instance of this particular name, from the island of Lesbos
21. and J. Engels, ZPE 96 (1993), 26ff
22. For as a title of pornographic works see K. Tsantsanoglou, ZPE 12 (1973), 193
23. See also R. Ganschinietz, Die Capitel des Hippoiytos gegen die Magier (Texte und Untersuckungen 39.2, Leipzig, 1913), 19, 72
24. R. Halleux, Les alchimistes grecs 1, 69ff. and Kingsley (note 4), 7 n. 41, assume the existence of a work by Anaxilaus circulating under the title. The sceptic might question this and argue that the way in which Irenaeus alludes to Anaxilaus' provides no confirmation for the existence of a work with this title and does not exclude the possibility that Anaxilaus' works were interspersed with. A sceptic might also question whether we can be sure of the existence of a work by ps-Democritus which was entitled. It is not otherwise attested. It has become the custom to call an individual item of the kind found there a paignion (so, for example, Maltomini commenting on P. Yale 2.134.7-8 in Supplementum magicum 2, p. 143) and no doubt it is conceivable that a collection of such might have gone under the heading, but it might be argued the papyrus-heading does not justify the assumption of the existence of an otherwise unattested Democritean work. It says 'paignia of Democritus', not 'from the paignia of Democritus'
25. See T. Kleberg, Eranos 43 (1945), 279: 'with an interesting secondary meaning "polish up in order to make saleable as slaves".' Cloudy Fischer points out that, since the psilotrum is used for removing hair, Salpe would be using it or recommending the use of it to make the pueri look less sexually mature than they really were and therefore more saleable by removing both body and facial hair
26. The existence of a work by Rufus of Ephesus entitled 'On the Sale of Slaves' proves that medical examinations of slaves must on some occasions at least have taken place before their sale. This lost work is cited by ar-Razi (see Rufus, pp. 469f. Daremberg-Ruelle for the Latin version of the Arabic: there is an English translation of the extracts by F. Rosenthal in The Classical Heritage of Islam [London, 1975], 204)
27. See D.'Arcy W. Thompson, A Glossary of Greek Fishes (London, 1947), p. 225
28. Compare also A. Davidson, Mediterranean Fish (Harmondsworth, 1972), p. 104: 'an easy fish to recognise, with ten or eleven golden-yellow horizontal stripes'
29. See also M. Waegeman, Amulet and Alphabet: Magical Amulets in the First Book of Cyranides (Amsterdam, 1987), p. 145