Authenticity and Sources of the "Origo Gentis Romanae": A Dissertation (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

William T. Semple

9780265359723: Authenticity and Sources of the "Origo Gentis Romanae": A Dissertation (Classic Reprint)

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Although the view of Mommsen was generally accepted, there were some who not only contended for the worth of the book, but also were so convinced of its value and the excellence of its style that they wished to assign it to Verrins Flacons. The abrupt transitions, which are frequently to be found in it, they explained, as did Mommsen, by assuming that the present Origo is an epitome of a greater one now lost.

All these scholars approached the question from the stand point of the contents of the different stories and of their agree ment with similar accounts preserved by other authors. But J. W. Beck,' thinking that little was to be determined with certainty from an investigation of sources, pursued another course to fix the date of the composition of the book. He made an examination of its Latinity. From a study of the use of words and phrases he concluded that the Origo was composed at some time after Apuleius and before Jerome's Latin version of the Chronicon of Eusebius.

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