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Ermodoro Minervio(Hermodorus Minervius). From Spoleto. "scienziato, poeta e diplomatico" (Sansi II 260). Student of Leto. Father of Severus Minervius, who mentions the fact in his De rebus gestis atque antiquis monumentis Spoleti (written about 1500).
Testimonia:
Severus Minervius, De rebus gestis Spoleti
Ed.: Severi Minervii ... De rebus gestis ..., 18-19.
Ego audiui ab Hermodoro patre meo, qui inter altiora studia poetarum sensu magnopere delectabatur, quod ex sexto Silii libro complura carmina, quibus Spoletinae ciuitatis laudes atque in Hannibalem uirtus extollebatur, ab inuidis et impiis manibus sublata fuerunt; seque id ipse a Pomponio Laeto praeceptore suo pluries audiuisse testabatur, dicebatque carmina subtracta fuisse statim post illud: "Et sedet ingentem pascens Meuania taurum."
I heard from my father Hermodorus (who besides more profound studies took much delight in poetry) that envious and wicked hands had removed in the sixth book of Silius several verses in praise of Spoleto and its prowess against Hannibal, and he assured me that he had heard this repeatedly from his teacher Leto, and said that the verses were removed immediately after: "Et sedet ingentem pascens Meuania taurum."
Bibliography: Severi Minervii Spoletini cives [!] De rebus gestis atque antiquis monumentis Spoleti libri duo, in: Documenti storici inediti in sussidio allo studio delle memorie Umbre raccolti e pubblicati per cura di Achille Sansi. Parte prima (Spoleto 1878), 11-103. Achille Sansi, Storia di Spoleto (Foligno 1879, repr. Spoleto 1972).
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