Un nuovo frammento degli Annales di Ennio in Orosio (hist. 3.9.5)?

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2019
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article
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37
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140
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150
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2210-8823
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In his Historiae adversus paganos Orosius records the episode of the Vestal Minucia who was buried alive in 337 B.C. after committing incestum (hist. 3, 9, 5). In ms. Sangallensis 621 of Orosius the St. Gall monk Ekkehart IV (XI sec.) added as an interlinear gloss to that passage (f. 108) a verse of Ennius’ Annales, not elsewhere known (ann. 158 Sk.), and the overwritten words (in campo qui nunc sceleratus vocatur) can be read as an almost complete hexameter. In this paper I suggest that at hist. 3.9.5 Orosius is quoting an otherwise unknown verse of Ennius’ Annales concerning the same episode of Minucia, much in the same way he does elsewhere when quoting Vergilian verses or expressions without stating their origin.
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Orosius’ Historiae, E...

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