This study focuses on the passage from Plautus’ Curculio (vv. 288-295) in which the parasite mocks the Greeks wearing the pallium. In the light of the previous bibliography, my textual analysis aims at drawing attention to the interpretation of 'palliatus', 'capite operto', 'suffarcinatus', 'sportula'. The reception of the scene is then examined, through the references to the typical dress of philosophers and the presence of the word 'suffarcinati' in other authors. It is mainly an archaic word of comedy, which has few occurrences after Plautus and Terence. 'Suffarcinati' was probably taken up by Jerome, a passionate reader of Plautus’ plays, and thanks to him the verb was brought back to use in Late Antiquity, by Paulinus of Nola and Augustine.
A. Lagioia, Il peso della cultura: palliati e suffarcinati da Plauto ad Agostino
lagioia alessandro
2022-01-01
Abstract
This study focuses on the passage from Plautus’ Curculio (vv. 288-295) in which the parasite mocks the Greeks wearing the pallium. In the light of the previous bibliography, my textual analysis aims at drawing attention to the interpretation of 'palliatus', 'capite operto', 'suffarcinatus', 'sportula'. The reception of the scene is then examined, through the references to the typical dress of philosophers and the presence of the word 'suffarcinati' in other authors. It is mainly an archaic word of comedy, which has few occurrences after Plautus and Terence. 'Suffarcinati' was probably taken up by Jerome, a passionate reader of Plautus’ plays, and thanks to him the verb was brought back to use in Late Antiquity, by Paulinus of Nola and Augustine.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
