Sextus Pompeius Festus - Wikipedia Sextus Pompeius Festus From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Sextus Pompeius Festus, usually known simply as Festus, was a Roman grammarian who probably flourished in the later 2nd century AD, perhaps at Narbo (Narbonne) in Gaul. Contents 1 Work 2 Manuscript 3 References 3.1 Citations 3.2 Bibliography 4 Further reading 5 External links Work[edit] He made a 20-volume epitome of Verrius Flaccus's voluminous and encyclopedic treatise De Verborum Significatione. Flaccus had been a celebrated grammarian who flourished in the reign of Augustus. Festus gives the etymology as well as the meaning of many words, and his work throws considerable light on the language, mythology and antiquities of ancient Rome. He made a few alterations, and inserted some critical remarks of his own. He also omitted such ancient Latin words as had long been obsolete; these he apparently discussed in a separate work now lost, entitled Priscorum verborum cum exemplis. Even incomplete, Festus' lexicon reflects at second hand the enormous intellectual effort that had been made in the Augustan Age to put together information on the traditions of the Roman world, which was already in a state of flux and change. Of Flaccus' work only a few fragments remain; of Festus' epitome, only one damaged, fragmentary manuscript. The rest is further abridged in a summary made at the close of the 8th century, by Paul the Deacon. The Festus Lexicon Project has summed up Paul's epitome of Festus' De Verborum Significatu as follows: The text, even in its present mutilated state, is an important source for scholars of Roman history. It is a treasury of historical, grammatical, legal and antiquarian learning, providing sometimes unique evidence for the culture, language, political, social and religious institutions, deities, laws, lost monuments, and topographical traditions of ancient Italy.[1] Manuscript[edit] The 11th-century Codex Farnesianus at Naples is the sole surviving manuscript of Festus. It was rediscovered in 1436 at Speyer by the Venetian humanist and bishop Pietro Donato.[2] When he found it, half of the manuscript was already missing, so that it only contains the alphabetized entries M-V, and not in perfect condition. It has been scorched by fire and disassembled. Collating these fragmentary abridgments, and republishing them with translations, is a project being coordinated at University College London, with several objectives: to make this information available in usable form, to stimulate debate on Festus and on the Augustan antiquarian tradition upon which he drew, and to enrich and to renew studies on Roman life, about which Festus provides essential information. References[edit] Citations[edit] ^ Festus Lexicon Project, Department of History - University College London (archived from the original) ^ Stinger, Charles L (1998). The Renaissance in Rome. Indiana University Press. p. 64. ISBN 0253212081 – via Google Books. Bibliography[edit]  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Festus, Sextus Pompeius". Encyclopædia Britannica. 10 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 294. Further reading[edit] Acciarino, D. 2016. "The Renaissance Editions of Festus: Fulvio Orsini's Version." Acta Classica 59: 1-22. Cornell, Timothy J. 2014. "Festus." In The Fragments of the Roman Historians. Vol. 1, Introduction. Edited by Timothy J. Cornell, 67–68. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press. Dahm, Murray K. 1999. "A Hendiadys in the Breviarum of Festus: A Literary Festus?" Prudentia: A Journal Devoted to the Intellectual History of the Ancient World. 31.1: 15–22. Glinister, Fay, and Clare Woods, with John A. North and Michael H. Crawford. 2007. Verrius, Festus, and Paul: Lexicography, Scholarship, and Society. Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies of the University of London Supplement 93. London: Institute of Classical Studies. Lamers, Han. 2013. "Creating Room for Doubt: A Reexamination of the editorship of Festus’ “Collectanea” (Rome, 1475)." Philologus 157:374–378. Lindsay, Wallace Martin. 1996. Studies in Early Mediaeval Latin Glossaries. Edited by Michael Lapidge. Variorum Collected Studies Series 467. Aldershot, UK: Variorum. Loew, Elias Avery. 1911. "The Naples MS. of Festus: Its Home and Date." Berliner Philologische Wochenschrift 31:917–918. Marshall, Peter K. 1983. "Sex. Pompeius Festus." In Texts and transmission: A Survey of the Latin Classics. Edited by Leighton D. Reynolds, 162–164. Oxford: Clarendon. North, John. 2008. "Restoring Festus from Paul’s Epitome." Acta Antiqua Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 48.1–2: 157–170. Schmidt, Peter Lebrecht. 2004. "Festus." In Brill's New Pauly: Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World. Vol. 5, Equ–Has. Edited by Hubert Cancik and Helmuth Schneider, 407. Leiden, The Netherlands, and Boston: Brill. External links[edit] Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sextus Pompeius Festus. Library resources about Sextus Pompeius Festus Online books Resources in your library Resources in other libraries By Sextus Pompeius Festus Online books Resources in your library Resources in other libraries (in French) Partial translations of De Verborum Significatione Wallace Martin Lindsay, ed. (1913). Sexti Pompei Festi De Verborum Significatu quae Supersunt cum Pauli Epitome. Leipzig: Teubner. reprint. Hildesheim: Olms. 1965. Karl Otfried Müller, ed. (1880) [1839]. Sexti Pompei Festi De Verborum Significatione quae Supersunt cum Pauli Epitome. Leipzig. reprint. Hildesheim: Olms. 1975. Emil Thewrewk, ed. (1889). De Verborum Significatu quae Supersunt cum Pauli Epitome, Part I. Budapest: Acad. litt. Hungarica. 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