Asconius Pedianus

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Quintus Asconius Pedianus (* around 9 BC, Padua ; † around 76 AD) was a commentator on classical texts and a grammarian.

His comments on the following speeches by Marcus Tullius Cicero have been preserved : in L. Calpurnium Pisonem , (“Against Lucius Calpurnius Piso ”), per Aemilio Scauro (“For Aemilius Scaurus ”), per T. Annio Milone (“For Titus Annius Milo ”) ), per Cornelio de maiestate , in toga candida . The comments on the last two speeches mentioned from the years 65 and 64 BC are interesting. BC, since the speeches themselves have not been preserved. Further comments are lost or inauthentic.

Suetonius used Asconius Pedianus for his De viris illustribus .

Editions and translations

  • Q. Asconii Paediani In Orationes M. Tullii Ciceronis enarrationes: nuper qua licuit cura, ac diligentia collatis, adhibitisque variis exemplaribus recogn., Ac locis innumeris restitutae . Paris 1520 ( digitized ).
  • Adolph Kießling , Rudolf Schöll , Berlin 1875.
  • Albert Curtis Clark , Oxford 1907.
  • Bruce Atkinson Marshall, Missouri UP, Columbia 1985.
  • Asconius Pedianus, Quintus: Commentaries on Five Speeches of Cicero. Edited with a Translation by Simon Squires. Bristol Classical Press, Bristol 1990.
  • (Ps.-Asconius) Cesare Giarratano, Rome 1920 (reprint 1976).
  • Marcus Tullius Cicero : Speech for Titus Annius Milo . With the comment of Asconius. Latin and German. Edited and translated by Marion Giebel . Reclam, Stuttgart 1992.
  • Quintus Asconius Pedianus: Commentaries on speeches of Cicero. Transl. with commentary by RG Lewis. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010.

literature

  • Georg Wissowa : Asconius 3 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II, 2, Stuttgart 1896, Col. 1524-1527.
  • Thomas Stangl : Pseudoasconiana (= studies on the history and culture of antiquity. 2nd volumes, 4th and 5th booklet). Schöningh, Paderborn 1909, OCLC 10248570 (text design and language of the anonymous scholias for Cicero's four first Verrinen examined on the basis of the oldest manuscripts used for the first time).
  • Bruce A. Marshall: A historical commentary on Asconius. University of Missouri Press, Columbia 1985.

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personal data
SURNAME Asconius Pedianus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pedianus, Quintus Asconius; Asconius Pedianus, Quintus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Commentator on classical texts and grammarians
DATE OF BIRTH around 9 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH at 76