Latin Literature
Latin Literature
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Throughout he tends to let his own preferences decidewhether or not a story is true. _In rebus tam antiquis si quae similiaveri sint pro veris accipiantur_ is the easy canon which he lays down forearly and uncertain events. Even when original documents of great valuewere extant, he refrains from citing them if they do not satisfy histaste. During the second Punic war a hymn to Juno had been written byLivius Andronicus for a propitiatory festival. It was one of the mostcelebrated documents of ea...rly Latin; but he refuses to insert it, on theground that to the taste of his own day it seemed rude and harsh. Yet asa historian, and not a collector of materials for history, he may pleadthe privilege of the artist. The modern compromise by which documents arecited in notes without being inserted in the text of histories had notthen been invented; and notes, even when as in the case of Gibbon's theyhave a substantive value as literature, are an adjunct to the historyitself, rather than any essential part of it.
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Throughout he tends to let his own preferences decidewhether or not a story is true. _In rebus tam antiquis si quae similiaveri sint pro veris accipiantur_ is the easy canon which he lays down forearly and uncertain events. Even when original documents of great valuewere extant, he refrains from citing them if they do not satisfy histaste. During the second Punic war a hymn to Juno had been written byLivius Andronicus for a propitiatory festival. It was one of the mostcelebrated documents of ea...rly Latin; but he refuses to insert it, on theground that to the taste of his own day it seemed rude and harsh. Yet asa historian, and not a collector of materials for history, he may pleadthe privilege of the artist. The modern compromise by which documents arecited in notes without being inserted in the text of histories had notthen been invented; and notes, even when as in the case of Gibbon's theyhave a substantive value as literature, are an adjunct to the historyitself, rather than any essential part of it.
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