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E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus (ed. E. T. Merrill), Poem 114 (search)
On Mentula as a ‘land-poor’ property owner. On the identity of Mentula with Mamurra see Intr. 73. The next poem speaks of the same estate as this. Firmanus: Firmum, now Fermo, was a town in Picenum, about forty miles south of Ancona. saltu: the word denoted first uncultivated land (cf. Fest. p. 302 sallus est ubi silvae et pastiones sunt, quarum causa casae quoque ), and then a mFermo, was a town in Picenum, about forty miles south of Ancona. saltu: the word denoted first uncultivated land (cf. Fest. p. 302 sallus est ubi silvae et pastiones sunt, quarum causa casae quoque ), and then a measure of 800 iugera as a single grant of such land by the land-commissions (Varr. R. R. 1.10.2), and then the grant in general, an ‘estate,’ even though comprising, as here, some arable land (cf. Fest. l.c. si qua particula in eo saltu pastorum aut custodum causa aratur, ea res non peremit nomen saltui). tot res egregias: spoken ironically, like non fulso in v. 1, for Catul. 115.1ff. shows that th