Justin and Pompeius Trogus : a study of the language of Justin's Epitome of Trogus / J.C. Yardley.

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Yardley also demonstrates how much Trogus was influenced by his contemporary Livy as well as other Roman authors such as Sallust and Caesar, and how the Epitome reveals the influence of Roman poetry, especially the work of Virgil.

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Yardley (Univ. of Ottawa) uses old-style source-criticism and contemporary electronic tools to compare the idioms of the Epitome, composed by Justinus, from the now lost Philippic History of Pompeius Trogus, with those of the latter's predecessors, contemporaries, and successors, to shed new light on an old philological question: how much of the Epitome is Justinus, and how much Trogus? In part 1 (devoted to unearthing the Trogus embedded in the Epitome), Yardley adduces the linguistic parallels between Caesar, Cicero, Sallust, and Livy (who predominates) on the one hand, and Justinus on the other. In part 2 he endeavors to isolate expressions peculiar to Justinus's post-Augustan Latin ("Justinisms"), particularly from the pseudo-Quintilianic declamationes, Latin poetry, and Roman law. Indexes are thorough, as is the bibliography. Good scholarship of its kind, but only for competent Latinists. ^BSumming Up: Optional. Graduate and research collections; not for undergraduates. C. J. Zabrowski Gettysburg College