Series | Antiquity Studies
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Chapter | Certissimo argumento aeternitati plus conferre tenuissimas membranas quam praedura marmora

Certissimo argumento aeternitati plus conferre tenuissimas membranas quam praedura marmora

De la plausibilité de quelques restitutions

Abstract

The Aureolus inscription is a text transmitted by the Vita Triginta tyrannorum as an awkward translation made by a grammarian. It has been unanimously regarded as a forgery, created by Trebellius Pollio. The inscription is quoted in his Rerum patriae by Andrea Alciato, who translates it again in a first draft of his Antiquitates Mediolanenses, before giving his own translation in the Dresdensis manuscript, from which it goes one’s own way until being denounced as a forgery by Mommsen. Is it a double forgery? One will find here some evidence in favour of the rehabilitation of the testimony of the Historia Augusta.


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Submitted: July 14, 2019 | Accepted: Oct. 18, 2019 | Published Dec. 11, 2019 | Language: fr

Keywords Trebellius PollioAndrea AlciatoAuthenticityEpigraphic forgeryAureolus


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