Caesar in Vergil and Servius Servius identifies the “Julius Caesar” named in Aeneid 1.286-8 as the dictator Gaius Julius Caesar rather than as Augustus (a debate still ongoing at Continue Reading →
Servius on pietas Servius, in his note on Aeneid 1.10, has a very straightforward, no-frills, useful definition of what it means for Aeneas to be insignem pietate: quia Continue Reading →
Huns in Claudian, Germans in Caesar Late in Book 1 of In Rufinum, Claudian describes the Huns: Est genus extremos* Scythiae vergentis in ortus trans gelidum Tanain, quo non famosius ullu Continue Reading →
