Database: Clavis Historicorum Antiquitatis Posterioris (CHAP)

Title(s):

Origins of Padua
De origine Patavina
(De origine Patavina, On the origins of Padua)

Author:

Anonymous (Origins of Padua)

Period covered:

Unknown

Language:

Latin

State of Preservation:

Fragmentary

Genre:

Remarks:

The only reference to the Origins of Padua comes from the anonymous Origin of the Roman people (fourth century), whose author quotes the work to explain two lines of Vergil (Aeneid 1.242-243).

According to Momigliano (1958: 70), the author of the Origins of the Roman people prepared a summary of the work on Padua. In fact, he says that he used it for a commentary on Vergil.

Edition - Translation:

P. Van Nuffelen, L. Van Hoof (2020) The fragmentary Latin histories of Late Antiquity (A.D. 300-650): Edition, translation and commentary. Cambridge.

Fragments:

Pseudo-Aurelius Victor: Origins of the Roman people 1.6

Users:

Anonymous (Origins of the Roman people)

Sources:

Bibliography:

R. Herzog (1989) Restauration und Erneuerung: Die lateinische Literatur von 284 bis 374 n. Chr., ed. R. Herzog (Handbuch der lateinischen Literatur der Antike, 8.5). Munich: 187.
S. Mariotti (1961) 'Appunti sull'Origo gentis Romanae'. In: Language and society: Essays presented to A.M. Jensen on his seventieth birthday, ed. A.M. Jansen. Copenhagen: 109-112.
A. Momigliano (1958) 'Per una nuova edizione dell'Origo gentis Romanae'. Athenaeum 36: 248-259.
A. Momigliano (1958) 'Some observations on the Origo gentis Romanae'. The Journal of Roman Studies 48: 56-73.
J.-C. Richard (1983) Pseudo-Aurélius Victor: Les origines du peuple romain. Paris: 77, 111-112.
P.L. Schmidt (1989) '§532.2 Origo patavina'. In: Restauration und Erneuerung: Die lateinische Literatur von 284 bis 374 n. Chr., ed. R. Herzog (Handbuch der lateinischen Literatur der Antike, 8.5). Munich: 187.