OPPIAN 



Tw " lepov Tf)6(f)iv {v. I. T/)oxti/) 'Ev\fO(riyaiov," et'^fia Se 

 TrXi^BvvTLKt] irapa rw 'tipoSona ev tw (Trav yevcovrai 

 Tp6<f>L€<; (Herod, iv. 9) [ = i/a/. ii. 634] ; on //. iv. 20 

 OTt /xv^a ou /xovov TreptTrw/xa to ^wtKov aAAa /cat rts 

 iTipoia rj Trapa tw 'OTTTrtavw yAayoecro-a (c/! Eustath. 

 on //. ii. 637) [ = Hal. iii. ^376] ; on //. iii. '367 ea-n 

 Koi ovofia (i.e. adjective) Trapot tw 'OTTTrtavw o(/)€AAi/ios, 

 o Tivc? o(^€A(rt/xos (ypa^av AloXiKiorepov [ = //a/, iii, 

 429] ; on //. iii. 54 'OTmavos ouv Xarva-a-ea-Oai intpv- 

 yioLS [ = Hal. i. 628 XaTva-a-ofj-evrj TTTepvyerra-ii'^ i\dva<s 

 Kai eXa(f>ov iTTioa-a-eLv r/Ae/xarov [ = Hal. iv. 590 eAa<^oi 

 rjXefxaTa TTTWo-croua-i]. Schol. BV on //. xiii. 443 

 quotes H. i. 134 f. 



II. Internal EviDENCE.^ — Cynegetica. 1. The Q/w- 

 egetica is dedicated to Caracalla (more correctly 

 '^ Caracallus), one of the two sons (the other being 

 Geta) of L. Septimius Severus, Roman Emperor, 

 A.D. 193-211, by his second wife, JuHa Domna of 

 Emesa in Syria : Cyn. i. 3 f. 'Kvroivlvv | t6i/ /jL(ydXr) 

 fieydXij) <j!>tTi'o-aTo Ao/xva Ye/Srjpip. Caracalla (this is 

 only a nickname), born at Lyons in a.d. 188, was 

 first called Bassianus. He was made Caesar in I96, 

 Imperator under the name of M. Aurelius Antoninus 

 in 197, and Augustus with tribunician power in 198. 

 On the death of Severus at York in 211, his two 

 sons shared the imperial throne till the murder 

 of Geta in 212. The most natural date for the 

 iJ' j Cynegetica is after Caracalla became sole Emperor, 

 i i.e., after 212. 



2. The poem is in any case dated after 198 by 

 the allusion in i. 31 k<^pacrdp.r]v Hapdinv re 8i)as koI 

 KTr)cri({)6(j)VTa to the capture of Ctesiphon by Severus 

 in that year, when Caracalla was but ten years .of_age. 



3. The author of the poem belongs to Apamea on 



xviii 



