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Achilles, –, Adams, J. N., n, n, n alienation: of the audience, –, ; of the poet, allusion: internal, ; to Lucilius, , , –; to Priapic poems, –; to satire as genre, , ambition, social, –, n ambivalence, –, –, , – ancestry: authority as legacy of, –; “Horace” as without ancestors, ; literary, of Lucilius vs. Horace, –n, n. See also status Anderson, W. S., , –, , n, nn–, n, n, n, n, n, n, n, n anger, , –, , –, , – Anthon, Charles, n Anthony, , –, , anus, , – Apollo, , , –, n appetites, , , –, , , , n Arbuscula, Aristius Fuscus, –, , , , n Aristophanes, Armstrong, David, n audience: alienation of, –, ; bad poetry encouraged, –, –; blame directed at, –, –; Epistles form and recognition of unavailability of interlocutor, ; exchange and communication with, , , –; expectations of, , , , , , ; fear and hatred of poets by, , –; flight of, ; friends as, , , –, n; Horace as lacking an, , , –; as insiders, , –; instructed how to respond, , , –, ; invective or hostile speech practiced by, , –, , –, ; limits to the speaking self established by, ; Maecenas as, –; menaced by satire, –, , –, , , ; as other in poetic relationship, ; persona as unthreatening to, –, –, ; popularity of satire and Old Comedy, –; as prize in poetic competition, , , –; quality preferred to quantity, –; relationship of speaker to, , , ; satire as displeasing to, ; shared power of satirist, –; as silent interlocutor, ; as spectators, –, , ; as sympathetic to or cooperative with Horace, –, Index audience (continued) , –; turba as, –, –; as unwilling, , –, , ; as willing, , , . See also listening authority: blamelessness and, ; as legacy of ancestry, –; of narrator as limited, ; Priapus as unreliable, ; social authority and satire, , , n autobiographical readings of Horace’s works, , –, –, , –n, n; persona as invitation to, –; selective nature of included “biographical” information, , balance: Horace as unbalanced, –; justice, ; in satire as defined by Horace, – Barton, Carlin, n Billy Budd (Melville), Bion of Borysthenes, – “bite” of satire: avoided by Horace, ; blaming as parallel to, n; Canidia’s magic ritual and, , , ; dentures and, ; found in material detail, ; during magical ritual, ; patron or reader as target of, ; presented, but not employed, by Horace, ; satirist as victim of, , , n blame: audience as target of, –, – ; and praise, binary opposition of, n; reflected on poet, blame speech, –, , blaming fate, blindness: as comedic element, –; to the faults of the other, –, ; Luscus and, ; Maecenas as only half-seen or half-revealed, –, ; omission linked to, ; as trait of poets, – Bloom, Harold, –n Bodel, John, n body: anus, performance of speechacts by, –; bodily functions and malfunctions, , –, , ; as metaphor for poetry (dismemberment ), , , n; mind-body dualism, ; natural limits and appetites of, –; as Rome’s “body politic,” ; stomach or gastric metaphors, –, , , –, , –, , ; unhappiness linked to, ; as voice of reason, – Bolanus, “bore.” See “interlocutor” in . Borzàk, Stephan, n Bowditch, Phebe Lowell, , n Bramble, John C., n, nn– brevity or compression of style, –, , , , , , n Brink, C. O., n Brundisium, –, , , , – Brutus, , –, n Buchheit, Vinzenz, n, n burden on unwilling listener, , –, burial ground as setting, –, nn– Callimacheanism, , , n Canidia: ambivalence toward, –; and attraction of coercive speech, –; Maecenus as counterpart to, n; as persona or alternate satirist, , , , –, –; Priapus’s description of, – Cantarella, Eva, n Cary, Clarence, n character: ambition as ethical concern, –; as defense against the dangers of satire, ; fault-noting as Index ethical training, , –, , n; of “Horace” persona essential to satire, ; as legacy of father, , , –, –, –, –, ; Maecenus as focused on, –; moralizing stance of satirist justified by, , civil wars, , , n Cocceius, coercion, –, ; magical speech as, ; other and need to restrain desire for, ; satire as, , ; solutions to, ; temptations of, , – Coffey, Michael, n, nn–, n, n, n, n, n comedy: contemporary poets criticized for ignorance of Greek, ; disqualified as true poetry, –; duel between Sarmentus and Messius Cicirrus as comedic element, ; father-son pair as comedic element, , –; jokes, –, , –; mock-epic style, –, , , , , , n; Old Comedy as precursor of satire, , –; persona as comedic tool, , – communication: with audience, , , –; exchange and reciprocity in, , , , ; magical speech as violation of, –; as problematic, . See also conversation competition: audience as prize in poetic, , ; differentiation of the self through, –; envy and, –; in father-son relationships, ; friendship ruined by, ; gladiatorial model of, –, n; Horace as avoiding, , ; “interlocutor” in . as potential, , , –; Lucilius as, , ; within Maenaus’s household, –; poetry as competitive sphere, , , –, , –; as risk to exercise invective, –; between speakers in Horace’s works, ; between unequals, – conflict: alternatives to contest, –; civil wars, , , n; Hector and Achilles as model, ; as irrational, –; with Lucilius over nature of satire, –; as purposeless, ; similarity of combatants, –, ; small-scale conflicts as reflection of larger, conversation: with audience, , –; Canidia and, –; dialogue as substitute for, , ; as gratifying exchange, –; with “interlocutor” in ., ; poetry as inherently different than, ; sermo as satire, , –, , –; style as conversational, , , , –, – Cratinus, Crispinus, , critical distance, , Cynicism, –, death: burial ground as setting, –; journey to Brundisium and, ; realistic portrayal of, ; silence as, ; speech as deadly burden on unwilling listener, , –, , – De Rerum Natura (Lucretius), – desire: false beliefs and, –, ; ideal...