The Glass Ball Game
Author(s): Edward Champlin
Source: Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, Bd. 60 (1985), pp. 159-163
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159
THE GLASS BALL GAME*
CIL VI
= ILS
( = 33815a)
9797
= CLE 29:
5173
Vrsus
tog?tus uitre? qui primus
cnm me?s l?s?ribus
l?s? decenter
pila
laudante popul? maxiur?s
cl?m?ribus
et Titi,
therm?s Agrippae
tberm?s Traii?ni,
s? tarnen miki cr?ditis,
?multum et Ner?nis,
sum. ouant?s conuen?te
pilicrepi
uiol?s rosis
amici fl?ribus,
statuamque
adque ung?ent? marcid?
foli?que mult?
ego
et uieruui pr?fundite
amantes
aut Sct?nuin aut Caecubum
Falernura
?onigrum
dominica
uiu? ac uolent? d? apotb?c?
seneni
canite u?ce concordi
Vrsumque
oner?te
ioc?sum
hilarein
decore
l?s?ns?,
nunc
scliolastieuin,
su?s
pilicrepum
antecessores
omn?s
n?cit
qui
arte
adque
u?ra uersu
uerba
supt?lissiin?.
d?camus
senes:
sum uictus
V?r?
cuius
was
who
"Ursus,
fellow-players,
of
baths
(if
friend
your
and
pour
one
who
voice
forth
the
alive
all
fess
us
let
it,
cavated
I
am
is
a
very
in
the
*)
Professor
A
merry,
thrice
consul
pleased
to
applause,
and
my
the
in
frequently
the
master's
full
of
cover
lovingly
or
many
a
the
Setian
Nero's
a
his
the
or
the
and
perfume;
to
one
with
sing
a
his
of
Caecuban,
pilicrepus,
taste,
statue
ancient
and
leaf
cellar;
jest,
with
of
Verus,
be
scholar,
and
dignity,
his
my
text
was
For
helpful
ago,
and
more
Peter's
was
discussed
read
been
once
to
a
I
defeated,
but
con
whose
times,
many
to
David
marble
large
in
and
Rome,
the
by
an
end-of-semester
at
the
Armstrong
to
ex
tablet
names
of
the
of
gathering
Heidelberg,
Tim Barnes
and
de
presumably
great
Union-Stube,
I am indebted
comment
recently
on
St.
Doktorandenkolloquium
1985.
have
not
patron,
found
at
The
paper
I
verse:
called."
inscription,
base.
this
in
words
century
statue
Alf?ldy's
long
true
speak
strange
version
11 February
Cameron
from
predecessors
sixteenth
a
from
riving
men
old
the
by
exodiarius
This
his
in
art.
delicate
Now
of
and
and
Falernian
black
man,
greatest
Titus,
pilicrepi,
blossoms
willing,
old
with
properly
I.
violet
unmixed
the
surpassed
most
am
and
ball
glass
with
Agrippa
o
and
and
Ursus
of
who
me)
rose
with
is
-
a
with
play
approved
of
rejoicing,
together
to
people
baths
the
believe
you
only
Gather
the
in
Trajan,
Roman
first
the
while
ipse, fateor, ? ter console
nec semel sed
patrono,
saepius,
libenter dicor exodiarius.
Werner
and Alan
Eck.
160
E.Champlin
nineteenth
century,
Gesammelte
Schriften
has
been
court
praise
to
instituit",
wise
late
anyone
play
hardly
for
And what
be
a
bear?)
be
would
playing
the
had
others
of
the
to
and
5
or
Nero
SI
TAMEN
we
with
gested.
keepers
are
by
-
the
much
surprise,
6431d,
CIL
of
not
and
mihi
tributes
cited
much
and
the
Trimalchio
of
Nero's
Titus,
by
a
All
"ego
sum".
are
(pilicrepus,
appropriate
the
of
this
pilarii,
line
13)
is
wine-list
to
Nero's
ball
professional
faux-naif
could
in
intentions:
69.2).
ballplayers
comrade
We
favourite
particular
fatuous
-
or
author's
cf.
The
him?
ballplayers
77.6,
IV.1926
naif
that
rebuilt
the
is
picture.
a
Dessau
believe
about
rather
their
it
take
boundaries
for
52.8,
delayed,
bizarre
these
we
warning
47.6,
to
probably
I
words:
ninth.
should
A
wine,
even
(perhaps
introducing
the
the
cr?dite
phrase
statue
of
libations
first
the
also
may
ball-playing
difficulties
Sat.
ILS
honour
and
a
(The
man
bulky.
simply
there
Nero.
scene
Agrippa,
in
general
DOMINICA.
(pilicrepi,
to
5174)
But,
6,
OVANTES
6-11
flowers
line
of
within
of
special
a
as
game
we
between
the
Whyever
the
me?"
Titus,
Pantheon
Trimalchio:
in
followed,
to
this
take
believe
those
the
CREDITIS.
as
properly?
and
stood
Trajan
region;
near
MIHI
untrustworthy
Lines
ILS
third
but
and
is
previous
Are
not
interesting,
of
of
can
how
heavy
least)
a
for
display
too
the
connection
the
most
the
stood
might
still
you
the
court
the
of
Agrippa
for
baths
fruitlessly
speculate
baths,
"Do
of
The
in
House
Line
is
one
Satyricon).
those
of
is
undercutting
decently.
but
balls,
glass
Trajan,
evidence
(neglecting
the
Golden
of
of
ancient
ample
baths
with
played
THERMIS
4
Line
at
picture
ball
glass
glass
other
33815a
expect:
ball
statue
any
is
VI.
for
or
is
togatus
game
might
and
man,
"primus
CIL
fragile
The
incongruities.
toga.
awkward,
a
with
too
incongruous
cf.
aroused
and
togatus
ball
glass
useful
might
sport?
a
Cf.
be
be
freed-,
libertus;
one
indeeed
of
wearing
somewhat
play
a
absence
and
while
is
to
Dessau;
either
such
the
initial
DECENTER
first
of
point
ball
(Mommsen,
As
being
his
The
balls
Glass
a
not
grows
ball,
and
problems
able
figure
should
(Mommsen)
(Buecheler)
reference).
ball?
(in
the
here:
2
antiquity.
quaint
a glass
free,
not
(18),
"Roman".
7.159.
exercise,
the
Verus
of
NH
Moreover
Line
was
or
of
of
a
to
was
society
Suspicion
of
man,
friends
Roman
with
played
melange
name
the
equivalent
a glass
sport
joke
is
Byzantine
with
unbelievable.
a
appropriate
client
in
mediaeval
simplicity.
Ursus
his
this
re-reading
a game
of
an
Pliny
unattested
quite
a
the
the
but
of
leaders
on
But
astonishing
are
simply
the
ball
old
simple
on
calling
but
(CLE),
and
rather
=
55-57
(1872)
ball-player
a
is
player,
of
pila.
possibility
TOGATUS.
cognomen
saltare
of
his
follow
is
Ursus
one
only
game
very
1 URSUS
a
that
the
he
glance
a
as
achievements
in
that
Line
puzzle.
the
the
by
lines
this
note
grotesque
instantly
not
to
at
him
more
the
his
and
defeat
ever
of
first
1
(EE
Buecheler
(ILS),
Ursus
twentieth.
At
mood
playful
Dessau
189-191),
the
by
a
is
proud
him
(1913)
noticed
barely
attendant
absurdly
8
a
in
Mommsen
Borghesi,
dead
are
sug
to
Glass
Ball
Game
"alive
and
willing".
The
be
baths
the
a
one
to
rendered
after
who,
funeral
there
And,
thus
Mommsen,
Galen
his
second
XIV.25K.
the
12-15
to
honorand
a
to
cellar
of
dominica,
and
man,
of
at
wine
of
apotheca
living
and
28.3;
choice
the
of
pouring
Sat.
libation
from
of
supposed
himself,
and
come
to
78.3).
the
emperor:
adducing
and
why
from
how
iuvenes"
by
men.
old
world
(Sidonius
13 HILAREM,
the
a
How
turned
"qui
about
all
defeat
Ursus
"student
when
pilae
SCHOLASTICUM. A strange
arte
senem
1.8.2).
Epp.
...
later
Ursus,
videmus
elderly
down
esse.
mortuum
"subito
the
upside
IOCOSUM, PILICREPUM,
splendid
information
did
Apollinaris,
vicit
me
Trimalchio:
(and
an
for
excessive
"Fingite
new
important
are
is
somewhat
him:
praise
Verus
and
pila")
predecessors?
followed
is
SENEM
It
to
how
is
It
SUPTILISSIMA.
Ursus
16).
ludentem
aleae
Line
-
belli."
(line
...
senes
libation
friends
his
aliquid
his
interpretation
funeral
to
perfume
is
wine
correct
URSUMQUE
tell
reinforced
calvum
a
Why
imperial
of
the
wine
with
funeral,
Ursus'
the
applauds
pila,
Falernian
in
Trimalchio
(Compare
cellars?
Lines
Dicite
mock
surprise,
on
a
with
of
(propin)
is
a
both
playing
libation
course
is
who
161
collection,
sheer
suptilissima":
naive
boasting?
Line
18
VERO
monstrated.
Verus'
his
after
father
Line
by
ad
Schol.
on
to
a
also
"Apud
veteres
3.175
a
of
here
Used
as
28.4.33
Aurelius,
was
adopted
like
de
that
his
by
is
Ursus,
grand
to
open
patron.
fine
ludorum
one
intrabat,
In
(Buecheler).
show.
at
Marcellinus
true
in
was
Mommsen
added
have
Verus,
1.10).
as
126,
Marcus
should
Marcus
young
(ib.
Ill
emperor
he
What
the
being
the
4.9:
house
Iuvenalem
end
the
Ammianus
his
patrono
EXODIARIUS.
19
foret",
tacked
up
brought
Marcus
death
in
cos.
Verus,
adprime".
premature
Vero
word-play,
lusit
"pila
father's
and
HA
cited
Buecheler
grandson,
M.Annius
consul:
thrice
a
effect
as
a
of
contempt.
term
of
ridiculus
qui
in
player
skits
and
self-abasement,
A
to
end
strange
the
poem.
What
is
content
their
recalling
In
attendant.
in
the
and
If
who
was
Verus
is
a historical
he
so,
what
...,
but
seems,
the
certe
production
a
was
elegant
the
a
largely
poesis
for
an
author's
and
ball-court
elderly
this
in
is
inscription
character
Petronius1
intention
Mommsen's
epigraphicae
fictional
recalling
figure
of
Ursus
their
senarii
amusing
comments,
pro
of
light
and
Buecheler's
compare
critically,
inconcinnity,
of
series
extraordinary
observed
man
old
ambiguity
metre:
in
incomprehensible
a
pulcherrimum
An
short,
simple
Trimalchio.
And
comic
sordibus".
more
mastery,
"carmen
puzzled
consuetis
not
technical
Republican
somewhat
even
verses
these
renders
wrapped
indelible
such
creating
cartoon,
a
figure?
Ursus?
the
clue,
context.
Ursus'
M.Annius
patron
Verus
and
three
times
(PIR2 A 695)
consul,
was
consul
and
our
suffect
link
in
to
97
162
E.Champlin
under
Nerva,
archal
spider,
great
families
of
this
can
part
large
most
the
of
the
considerable
Pius,
Hadrian's
in
as
turn
an
old
Marcus
in
Roman
the
the
child,
his
under
of
house
pila,
an
the
young
Marcus,
He
interest
he
may
it
also,
inscription
poem,
was
to
his
us,
in
the
the
grand
political
interest
in
education
at
of
eye
the
it
ball,
playing
his
another
an
had
he
of
adoption
to
about
succeed
Yet
Marcus
caught
not
the
of
appears,
which
is
to
seventies.
confirmed
interest
Antoninus
was
be
marriage
indirectly
an
Ursus
the
emperor.
as
the
by Hadrian,
obscure
clear.
or
sixties
late
absent
become,
of
was
Verus
an
Ursus
for
importantly,
is
politics.
Dio
in
four
century
he
point
the
players
and
the
Plato
try
be
with
the
globe
as
regnum,
one
lost;
ball
real
very
and
the
the
rivals.
now
were
it
if
the
belabour
very
advanced
age
figure,
childless
One
Fuscus
Hadrian,
sign
of
gets
the
121)
and
success
(born
a
in
a
donkey
but
5173
is
a political
that
is
L.Iulius
113)
who
Caesar;
two
their
senes
rivalry,
must
of
one
In
and
Servianus
him
the
the
would
that
him,
men
game,
also
J
at
a
had
a
Annius
relatives
natural
is
is
(PIR2
while
were
been
Ursus
executed
Servianus
young
or
missing
allegory,
victor.
had
with
have
children
dropped
allegory,
Ursus
both
one
perhaps
the
Ursus
died
as
dif
Bear.
who
Hadrian,
with
game
symbolism
be,
was
Verus
which
Theaetetus,
as
the
At
loses,
without
If
could
glass
in
donkey',
through
(and on
imperii".
in
be
96,1984,53-116).
as
emperor
became
the
and
the
same
the
mind.
hit
is
Ball-playing
M.Annius
affectatorem
"quasi
(born
grandson
down
who
not
ILS
point,
of
Pedanius
game
was
important
'sit
fragile
one
loser
the
shall
anyone
pre-eminence
as
In
of
early
in
boys,
in
passage
version
MEFR
by
who
Anyone
a
In
4.46-48).
composed
Trajan
played
ball.
translation).
P.Arnaud,
brother-in-law
grandson,
Verus'
signifying
see
match,
to
Not
631),
itself
ball;
Cornford
A,
irretrievably.
particular
at
with
"Kings"
the
another
misses
who
(146
called
had
Verus,
apparently
with
apparently
playing
Annius
kingship,
(Or.
king
is
king..."
it
lose
another
"Everyone
are
they
shall
ball,
ball-game
one
called
what
rules:
when
hit
is
to
on
a
to
of
contemporary
addresses
to
winner
ferent
older
alludes
refers
say
an
Chrysostom,
the
one
a
and
However
is
The
his
himself.
emperor
adoption
the
patri
the
consulships,
to
by
like
son-in-law
Pius,
Hadrian
5173.
in
the
city
son
and
a
encompassed
under
was
son-in-law
marvellous
been
Most
third
the
with
have
detail.
and
Verus,
126,
Pius.
the
ILS
of
about
of
some
of
grandson
his
Antoninus
by
with
author
adoption
included
prefect
Annius
of
daughter
pre-eminence
playing
his
by
Rome and
second
his
terms
dynastic
which
in
his
as
Rome
Aurelius.
Marcus
grandson
between
in
to
web
plotted
manoeuvring,
see
to
be
man
then
seems
a
of
Hadrianic
successor;
man
lived
time
man
powerful
After
web
and
Hadrian,
This
126.
centre
the
of
sections
under
in
again
at
lying
political
The
a
consul
ordinary
rapidity
121
in
consul
ordinary
immediately
of
political
evident.
Servianus
was
Servianus
was
older
his
until
The
the
lusores
their
of
his
should
be
Ursus'
Chronology
would
the
reader.
second
to
the
apotheca
the
last
all.
Literary
as
political
one
not
wholly
the
M.Annius
men
very
passion
an
juggling:
himself,
piece
with
a
known
the
statue
Verus
affected
strange
Princeton/Heidelberg
had
it
of
a
on
laugh
that
this
of
parodies
from
real
indeed
old
enough
that
might
seem
homage
to
his
statue
mourning
appropriate,
many
who
but
reigns
more
comes
at
the
imperial
the
former
has
an
than
libation
how
should
piece
thing
for
playing
a
is
but
from
court.
And
champion
has
and
Verus.
a
on
bear
of
heartily
The
marble
playing
slab
the
L.Iulius
joke.
inscribed
and
extreme.
rather
the
mock
connection
of
rather
the
ball
bitter
Servianus
perhaps
and
wrote
When
next
Fantasy
it
they
the
it
accompanying
had
game
joke,
-
ball?
126.
January,
at
aged
is
on
notion
and
self-deprecating
to
this
the
been
common,
based
joke,
ball
have
are
inscriptions
monuments,
whole
toga-clad
Kalends
which
death,
verba...victus...Vero".
is
engraved
the
to
Nero's.
Ursus
though
funeral
played
in
and
his
nothing
his
pilicrepi
was
are
over
explains
elegant,
complimentary
pay
rites
was
game
versu
hung
that
to
mockingly,
ruefully
and
often
unlikely
Naturally
strange
is
Verus'
abased,
the
named
for
of
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