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In piscibus obsonatores et rhetores: Petr. 39.13*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2013

Martin Korenjak
Martin Korenjak
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Institut Für Klassische Philologie Der Universität Bern
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In piscibus (sc. nascuntur) obsonatores et rhetores: thus Trimalchio concludes the sign-by-sign interpretation he gives in Petr. 39 of the astrological repositorium that has been served some chapters before (35.1–5). While the obsonatores – ‘buyers of fish’ (TLL 9.234.49–70), from ὀΨωνέω, ‘buy fish and other dainties’ (LSJ s.v.) – pose no problem, the rhetores have mystified interpreters since Peter Burman, who frankly confessed: ‘Causam non video, cum pisces vulgo muti habeantur, rhetores vero loquaces. Fortasse corrupta vox. An vectores aut veteratores? Haereo.’

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The Cambridge Classical Journal , Volume 52 , 2006 , pp. 134 - 138
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Copyright © The Author(s). Published online by Cambridge University Press 2006

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