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Latin poet
Abronius Silo (fl. 1st century BC) was a
Latin poet who lived in the latter part of the
Augustan age . Silo is mentioned in the
suasoriae of
Seneca the Elder . Seneca wrote that he was a pupil of the
rhetorician
Marcus Porcius Latro . According to Seneca, he plagiarized a poem about the
Illiad from his Latro.
[1]
[2] The plagiarized line read:
[3]
Danai, magnum paeana canentes, ite triumphantes: belli mora concidit Hector
Translated into English this quote reads:
[4]
Go forward, Greeks, singing a great paean, go victorious: Hector, the brake on the war, has fallen
Seneca also wrote that he fathered another poet, also named Silo, who wrote poetry intended for pantomimes.
[5] Which Seneca considered to be a waste of his talents.
[6]
[7]
References
^ McGill, Scott (2012-07-05).
Plagiarism in Latin Literature . Cambridge University Press. pp. 167–168.
ISBN
978-1-139-53665-3 .
^ Garrison, Irene Peirano; Peirano, Irene (2019-08-22).
Persuasion, Rhetoric and Roman Poetry . Cambridge University Press. p. 69.
ISBN
978-1-107-10424-2 .
^ Trinacty, Christopher (2009).
"Like Father, Like Son?: Selected Examples of Intertextuality in Seneca the Younger and Seneca the Elder" . Phoenix . 63 (3/4): 271–272.
ISSN
0031-8299 – via
JSTOR .
^
"Plagiarism or Imitation?: The Case of Abronius Silo in Seneca the Elder's Suasoriae 2.19–20" . Project Muse . Retrieved September 7, 2020 .
^ Hall, Edith; Wyles, Rosie (2008-11-20).
New Directions in Ancient Pantomime . OUP Oxford. pp. 158–159.
ISBN
978-0-19-923253-6 .
^
Seneca the Elder .
Suasoriae .
2.19 .
^
Smith, William (1867),
"Abronius Silo" , in Smith, William (ed.),
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology , vol. 1, p. 3, archived from
the original on 2005-12-31, retrieved 2007-09-08
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain :
Smith, William (1870). "Abronius Silo". In
Smith, William (ed.).
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology . p. 3.
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