6 articles in this issue
Miryam Librán Moreno
Reasons of both palaeography and dramatic sense support reading ?e??e?, “devours,” in Ag. 1479.
Stephen Usher
Polybius tends to use direct speech to bring out the character of the speaker or the importance or complexity of the issues, and indirect for preliminary talk, comments on past decisions, or negative advice.
Pantelis Nigdelis
The decree, reedited, reveals Varinius' testamentary disposition, confirmed by an oath sworn by the council, to distribute money to the citizens on the anniversaries of his birthday.
Ari Z. Bryen,Andrzej Wypustek
Gemellus' complaint about an attack on him by magic alludes to his damaged eyes, which suggests that he was perceived by his neighbors as possessing an evil eye that had caused them harm, to which they were responding.
Laura Miguélez Cavero
Nonnus, writing as a Christian poet, uses visual details in ways that characterize the pagan gods as inadequate or ridiculous.
Anthony Kaldellis
Procopius finished the Secret History, which includes an addendum, in 550/1, and his system of cross-references suggests the scope of an Ecclesiastical History that he never completed.