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"Member Diving" Poems by Julius Caesar are talked about by several sources in antiquity.[1] None are extant.

Plutarch says that verse compositions have been among the many entertainments Caesar offered the Cilician pirates who captured him as a younger man in seventy five BC. [3] Caesar’s Dicta Collectanea, a set of his memorable quotations, is assumed to have contained quotations from his verse in addition to prose works. [2] Pliny places “the divine Julius” on his record of serious men who wrote not-so-critical poems. [4]

The titles of two works Caesar wrote as a young man are recognized, a Laudes Herculis (“Praises of Hercules”) and the verse tragedy Oedipus; their deliberate publication by the librarian Pompeius Macer was squelched by a “short and easy” – or perhaps “curt and direct”[5] – letter from Caesar’s heir Augustus as incompatible with his program of deification. [7] Caesar’s choice of writing as a pastime in prelude to the decisive and brutal Battle of Munda illustrates the twin preoccupations of the Late Republican aristocrat, with militarism and political energy-plays balanced by elite intellectual and aesthetic aspirations. [8] A third title, Iter (“The Journey”), dates from forty six BC, composed throughout a 24-day trip from Rome to Spain during the civil battle. [6] This verse travelogue may have been modeled after Lucilius’s poem about a visit to Sicily.

Surviving texts
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A single incomplete line survives which may come from the Iter, quoted by Isidore of Seville[9] in discussing the word unguentum, “ointment”:

Certain unguents, however, are referred to by place of origin. An example is telinum,[10] as Julius Caesar notes when he says ‘We lubricate our bodies with soothing telinum.’ This was concocted on the island of Telos, which is among the Cyclades.

The quoted phrase corpusque suaui telino unguimus is a part of a scazon or iambic trimeter.[11] Its writer has also been recognized as C. Iulius Caesar Strabo, the dictator’s uncle.[12]

In his Life of Terence, Suetonius preserves six lines of dactylic hexameter by Caesar praising the Roman playwright, along with a extra lukewarm assessment by Cicero. Linguistic nationalism.[16] Caesar’s personal stylistic predilections. [13] These two verse passages, with their similarity of purpose and wording, could have resulted from a school project, since both men studied with the trainer and grammarian Gnipho.

Reception
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Tacitus considered their loss a cheerful accident for the dictator’s literary reputation:[17]

For Caesar and Brutus wrote poems, and put them of their associates’ libraries too. They had been no better than Cicero, but have been more lucky, for their poetry is less recognized.[18]

^ Pliny, Natural History 19.8.144; Tacitus, Dialogus de oratoribus 21; Suetonius 56; Nonius Marcellus fr. 15; Isidorus, Etymologiae 4.12.7; Firmicus Maternus, Matheseos 2. pr. 2.

^ Plutarch, Life of Caesar 2, Bill Thayer’s edition at LacusCurtius on-line.

^ Pliny, Epistulae 5.3.5, Latin textual content at the Latin Library.

^ Gian Biagio Conte, Latin Literature: A Historical past (Johns Hopkins College Press, 1994), p. 226 online.

^ Brevis et simplex.

^ Suetonius, Julius Caesar 56, Invoice Thayer’s edition at LacusCurtius on-line.

^ Lucilius 3; Courtney, Fragmentary Latin Poets, p. 187.

^ Llewelyn Morgan, “Escapes from Orthodoxy: Poetry of the Late Republic,” in Literature in the Roman World (Oxford University Press, 2000), pp. 336-339 on-line.

^ Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae 4.12.7, Bill Thayer’s version of the Latin textual content at LacusCurtius online.

^ “A fragrant ointment made from fenugreek”: Oxford Latin Dictionary (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982, 1985), p. 1911.

^ Courtney, Fragmentary Latin Poets, p. 187.

^ Priscilla Throop, Isidore of Seville’s Etymologies: Complete English Translation (2005), notes to XII on-line; William D. Sharpe, “Isidore of Seville: The Medical Writings,” Transactions of the American Philosophical Society fifty four (1964), p. Sixty three online. Michael von Albrecht takes no position on the attribution of this line, but notes that Caesar was likely influenced by his uncle; see A Historical past of Roman Literature: From Livius Andronicus to Boethius (Brill, 1997), p. 409 on-line.

^ Suetonius, Life of Terence 7.

^ Courtney, Fragmentary Latin Poets, p. 155.

^ Puri sermonis amator.

^ Courtney, Fragmentary Latin Poets, pp. 153-154; Lindsay Corridor, “Ratio and Romanitas within the Bellum Gallicum,” in Julius Caesar as Artful Reporter: The Battle Commentaries as Political Devices (Classical Press of Wales, 1998).

^ Except in any other case famous, citations of major sources and general overview from Edward Courtney, The Fragmentary Latin Poets (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993), pp. 153-155 and 187-188.

^ Tacitus, Dialogus 21.6, English translation (together with remarks on Caesar as a public speaker) by W. Hamilton Fyfe, Tacitus: Dialogus, Agricola, and Germania (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908), p. 22 on-line; Latin with notes on-line.

Bibliography
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Courtney, Edward. The Fragmentary Latin Poets. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993.

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