Solinus
Gaius Julius Solinus was a late antique Latin grammarian and compiler . He probably worked in the middle of the 4th century.
"Polyhistor"
His main work is the paradoxographic De mirabilibus mundi ("The wonders of the world"), also known under the titles Collectanea rerum memorabilium ("Collected Memories") and Polyhistor . Theodor Mommsen dated the work to the first half of the 3rd century. The content is for the most part a compilation of peculiarities and curiosities, which the author had excerpted mainly from the natural history of Pliny and the description of the earth by Pomponius Mela . According to Mommsen, Solinus also used a chronicle (probably by Cornelius Bocchus ) and Chorographia pliniana , an excerpt ( epitome ) from the work of Pliny from Hadrianic times.
There seem to have been two editions, the second under the title Polyhistor , unlike the first, being authorized by the author. The work was very popular in the Middle Ages, excerpts and even versions were in circulation (e.g. by Theodoric von St. Truiden ). At that time it was sometimes assumed that polyhistor was the name of the author.
The early editor Saumaise found a fragment of a poem called Pontica in heroic hexameters , which is believed to be by Solinus as well.
expenditure
- Ivlii Solini de sitv et memorabilibvs orbis capitvla. Nicolaus Jenson, Venice 1473. Online
- C. Ivlii Solini Polyhistor, seu rerum orbis memorabilium collectanea. Eucharius Cervicornus & Hero Fuchs, Cologne 1520. Online
- Claude de Saumaise (Ed., Comm.): Plinianæ exercitationes in Caji Julii Solini Polyhistoria - item Caji Julii Solinii Polyhistor ex Veteribus Libris emendatus. 2 vols. Utrecht 1629. Text and commentary.
- Theodor Mommsen (Ed.): C. Ivlii Solini collectanea rervm memorabilivm 4th ed., Unchanged. Reprint of the 1st edition, Berlin 1895. Weidmann, Zurich a. Hildesheim 1999, ISBN 3-615-15600-5 .
- Kai Brodersen (Ed., Translator): Solinus: Wunder der Welt. Collectanea rerum mirabilium. Latin and German. Edition antiquity. Darmstadt: Wiss. Book Society 2014, ISBN 978-3-534-18162-9 .
- Pontica. In: Pieter Burman (Ed.): Anthologia Veterum Latinorum Epigrammatum Et Poëmatum. Petrus Schouten, Amsterdam 1759–1773.
literature
- William Ramsay: Solinus, C. Julius . In: William Smith (Ed.): Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology . tape 3 : Oarses-Zygia and Zygius . Little, Brown and Company, Boston 1870, p. 856–857 (English, Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Kai Brodersen (Ed.): Solinus. New Studies. Heidelberg: Verlag Antike 2014, ISBN 978-3-938032-86-2 .
- Wilhelm Siegmund Teuffel: History of the Roman literature. Volume 3. 6th edition, 1913, § 389.
Web links
- Literature by and about Solinus in the catalog of the German National Library
- Caii Julii Solini de Mirabilibus Mundi - texts of the editions of CLF Panckoucke (Paris 1847) and Mommsen (1864).
Individual evidence
- ↑ The work is dedicated to an Adventus . If this is identified with Marcus Oclatinius Adventus , consul of the year 218, this requires an early date.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Solinus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Solinus, Gaius Julius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Roman grammarian and compiler |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th century |