Abronius Silo

Abronius Silo (fl. 1st century BC) was a Latin poet who lived in the latter part of the Augustan age. Silo is mentioned in the suasoriae of Seneca the Elder. Seneca wrote that he was a pupil of the rhetorician Marcus Porcius Latro. According to Seneca, he plagiarized a poem about the Illiad from his Latro. ^{[1] [2]} The plagiarized line read: ^[3]

Danai, magnum paeana canentes, ite triumphantes: belli mora concidit Hector

Translated into English this quote reads: ^[4]

Go forward, Greeks, singing a great paean, go victorious: Hector, the brake on the war, has fallen

Seneca also wrote that he fathered another poet, also named Silo, who wrote poetry intended for pantomimes. ^[5] Which Seneca considered to be a waste of his talents. ^{[6] [7]}

References

1. McGill, Scott (2012). Plagiarism in Latin Literature. Cambridge University Press. pp. 167–168. ISBN   978-1-139-53665-3.
2. Garrison, Irene Peirano (2019). Persuasion, Rhetoric and Roman Poetry. Cambridge University Press. p. 69. ISBN   978-1-107-10424-2.
3. Trinacty, Christopher (2009). "Like Father, Like Son?: Selected Examples of Intertextuality in Seneca the Younger and Seneca the Elder". Phoenix. 63 (3/4): 271–272. ISSN   0031-8299. JSTOR   25747979.
4. "Plagiarism or Imitation?: The Case of Abronius Silo in Seneca the Elder's Suasoriae 2.19–20". Project Muse. Retrieved September 7, 2020.
5. Jory, John (2008). "The Pantomime Dancer and his Libretto". In Hall, Edith; Wyles, Rosie (eds.). New Directions in Ancient Pantomime. OUP Oxford. pp. 158–159. ISBN   978-0-19-923253-6.
6. Seneca the Elder. Suasoriae. 2.19.
7. Smith, William (1867), "Abronius Silo", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology , vol. 1, p. 3, archived from the original on 2005-12-31, retrieved 2007-09-08

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain :  Smith, William (1870). "Abronius Silo". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology . p. 3.