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
edit- ^ McGill, Scott (2012-07-05). Plagiarism in Latin Literature. Cambridge University Press. pp. 167–168. ISBN 978-1-139-53665-3.
- ^ Garrison, Irene Peirano (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.
- ^ Jory, John (2008-11-20). "The Pantomime Dancer and his Libretto". In Hall, Edith; Wyles, Rosie (eds.). 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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