Abronius Silo Explained

Abronius Silo (fl. 1st century BC) was a Latin poet who lived in the latter part of the Augustan age. Silo is mentioned in the suasoriae of Seneca the Elder. Seneca wrote that he was a pupil of the rhetorician Marcus Porcius Latro. According to Seneca, he plagiarized a poem about the Illiad from his Latro.^{[1] [2]} The plagiarized line read:^[3]

Translated into English this quote reads:^[4]

Seneca also wrote that he fathered another poet, also named Silo, who wrote poetry intended for pantomimes.^[5] Which Seneca considered to be a waste of his talents.^[6]

References

1. Book: McGill, Scott . Plagiarism in Latin Literature . 2012-07-05 . Cambridge University Press . 978-1-139-53665-3 . 167-168 . en.
2. Book: Garrison, Irene Peirano . Persuasion, Rhetoric and Roman Poetry . Peirano . Irene . 2019-08-22 . Cambridge University Press . 978-1-107-10424-2 . 69 . en.
3. Trinacty . Christopher . 2009 . Like Father, Like Son?: Selected Examples of Intertextuality in Seneca the Younger and Seneca the Elder . Phoenix . 63 . 3/4 . 271-272 . 0031-8299 . JSTOR.
4. Web site: Plagiarism or Imitation?: The Case of Abronius Silo in Seneca the Elder's Suasoriae 2.19–20 . September 7, 2020 . Project Muse.
5. Book: Hall, Edith . New Directions in Ancient Pantomime . Wyles . Rosie . 2008-11-20 . OUP Oxford . 978-0-19-923253-6 . 158-159 . en.
6. [Seneca the Elder]