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Browsing named entities in E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus (ed. E. T. Merrill). You can also browse the collection for Ancona (Italy) or search for Ancona (Italy) in all documents.
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E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus (ed. E. T. Merrill), Poem 36 (search)
E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus (ed. E. T. Merrill), Poem 114 (search)
On Mentula as a
‘land-poor’
property owner. On the identity of Mentula with Mamurra see Intr. 73. The next poem
speaks of the same estate as this.
Firmanus: Firmum, now Fermo, was a town in
Picenum, about forty miles south of Ancona.
saltu: the word denoted
first uncultivated land (cf.
Fest. p. 302
sallus est ubi silvae et pastiones
sunt, quarum causa casae quoque
), and then a measure of 800 iugera as a single grant of such land by the
land-commissions (Varr. R. R.
1.10.2), and then the grant in general, an
‘estate,’ even though comprising, as
here, some arable land (cf. Fest. l.c. si
qua particula in eo saltu pastorum aut custodum causa
aratur, ea res non peremit nomen saltui).
tot res egregias:
spoken ironically, like non
fulso in v. 1, for Catul. 115.1ff. shows that the