Abstract

This article reconsiders the relationship between Horace’s iter Brundisinum (Sat. 1.5), Lucilius’ iter Siculum (book 3), and Aristophanes’ Frogs. It argues that both Horace’s poem and Lucilius’ are more extensively indebted to Frogs than had previously been recognized; that Horace’s claim (Sat. 1.4.1–7) that Lucilius was “totally dependent” on Old Comedy has a superficial plausibility if one considers only Lucilius’ first three books, though hardly applicable to his whole corpus; and that Horace chose to link Lucilian satura with Old Comedy, rather than with Archilochus and the iambographers, because in his Epodes he was presenting himself as Archilochus’ heir.

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