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244:"looking after" or "tending to" things, that is, from its guarding them, from which also "doorkeeper" and "watching carefully" are named. Still others derive its etymology from its "being seen above" . Together with everything it encompasses, it is called the "world" from its being "so beautifully ordered" 230:
readings. Cornutus sought to recover the earliest beliefs that primitive people had about the world by examining the various names and titles of the gods. The result, to modern eyes, is often bizarre, with many forced etymologies, as can be seen from the opening paragraph, where Cornutus describes
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The Heaven , my boy, encompasses round about the earth and the sea and everything both on the earth and the sea. On this account it has acquired its appellation, since it is an "upper limit" of all things and "marks of the bounds" of nature. Some say, however, that it is called Heaven from its
77:, who was of his own age, and also a disciple of Cornutus". At Persius's death, Cornutus returned to Persius' sisters a bequest made to him, but accepted Persius' library of some 700 scrolls. He revised the deceased poet's satires for publication, but handed them over to 283:
We are told that the world has a soul that preserves it called Zeus who dwells in Heaven whose substance is fiery. Zeus is the power that pervades everything, and who assigns Fate to each person. The gods have sent us Reason
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is the stability of the qualities. For from their blending or mixing come about those things that exist; and nothing would exist if either one unmixed gained the upper hand over the other.
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Among Persius's satires were lines that, as Suetonius records, "even lashed Nero himself, who was then the reigning prince. The verse ran as follows:
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nevertheless – in 66 or 68 AD – for having indirectly disparaged the emperor's projected history of the Romans in
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to Persius are also attributed to Annaeus Cornutus; the latter, however, are of much later date, and are assigned by Jahn to the
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For a recent study of these scholia, some of which are now thought to be ancient, see J. E. G. Zetzel,
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Marginal Scholarship and Textual Deviance. The Commentum Cornuti and the Early Scholia on Persius
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Lucius Annaeus Cornutus: Compendium de Graecae Theologiae traditionibus
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is addressed to him, as well as other distinguished students, such as
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in order that it might not be supposed that it was meant to apply to
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Cornutus: A Cursory Examination of the Traditions of Greek Theology
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Cornutus: A Cursory Examination of the Traditions of Greek Theology
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The book continues in a similar vein, proceeding from such gods as
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His one major surviving work, the philosophical treatise,
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that "glides swiftly" and changes continuously, whereas
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Cornutus, 1.1, from Armstrong, White, (translators),
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Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
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Index

Ancient Greek
Stoic
philosopher
Nero
Leptis Magna
Libya
Rome
Persius
satire
Claudius Agathemerus
Lucan
Caesius Bassus
King Midas
Nero
Nero
heroic verse
rhetorical
Greek
Latin
Cassiodorus
Virgil
Servius
Rhetoric
Greek mythology
etymological
Ouranos
Zeus
Hera
Cronus
Poseidon

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