Presentazione Introduzione Dall’Epistolario 1. Epist. 2,2. A Domizio 2. Epist. 2,9. A Donidio 3. Epist. 4,8. Ad Evodio 4. Epist. 4,21. Ad Apro 5. Epist. 8,3. A Leone 6. Epist. 1,1. A Costanzio 7. Epist. 3,14. A Placido 8. Epist. 8,6. A Namazio 9. Epist. 4,12. A Simplicio e Apollinare 10. Epist. 4,1. A Probo 11. Epist. 4,2. Claudiano a Sidonio 12. Epist. 4,3. A Claudiano 13. Epist. 3,1. Ad Avito 14. Epist. 8,10. A Ruricio 15. Epist. 5,15. A Ruricio 16. Epist. 5,16. A Papianilla 17. Epist. 5,9. Ad Aquilino 18. Epist. 4,16. A Ruricio 19. Epist. 7,18. A Costanzio 20. Epist. 9,11. A Lupo 21. Epist. 8,1. A Petronio 22. Epist. 9,13. A Tonanzio 23. Epist. 8,16. A Costanzio 24. Epist. 9,1. A Firmino 25. Epist. 9,12. Ad Oresio 26. Epist. 9,16. A Firmino Bibliografia Indice dei passi citati Review by Francesco Montone in Salternum 20 (2016) 285-86. download
The ambiguous term superstitio, with which Sidonius Apollinaris describes in letter 8,6 the ritual performed by the Saxons before raising anchor, has a strongly negative meaning: this is not only ascribable to the historical and cultural context in which the author lives, but it also represents an original re- elaboration in a Christian dimension of Lucretius’ words.
The participation of the Bructeri warriors in Attila’s Gallic campaign 451 AD is a matter of historiographical debate. While Sidonius Apollinaris mentions that they were a part of the Hun army, his statement is questioned by many modern commentators. Thus, E.A. Thompson argues that Bructeri were a long non-existent tribe when Attila attacked Gaul. However, my paper demonstrates that they were an existing ethnic group from the rst until the sixth century AD providing some additional arguments supporting the claim that Attila’s army could enlist Bructeri warriors since the Huns crossed the Rhine near the actual homeland of the tribe.

In 1967 Alan Cameron published a landmark article in this journal, ′The fate of Pliny's Letters in the late Empire′. Opposing the traditional thesis that the letters of Pliny the Younger were only rediscovered in the mid to late fifth century by Sidonius Apollinaris, Cameron proposed that closer attention be paid to the faint but clear traces of the letters in the third and fourth centuries. On the basis of well- observed intertextual correspondences, Cameron proposed that Pliny's letters were being read by the end of the fourth century at the latest. That article now seems the vanguard of a rise in scholarly interest in Pliny's late-antique reception. But Cameron also noted the explicit attention given to the letters by two earlier commentators—Tertullian of Carthage, in the late second to early third century, and Eusebius of Caesarea, in the early fourth. The use of Pliny in these two earliest commentators, in stark contrast to their later successors, has received almost no subsequent attention.