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Silvae
The ''Silvae'' is a collection of Latin occasional poetry in hexameters, hendecasyllables, and lyric meters by Publius Papinius Statius (c. 45 – c. 96 CE). There are 32 poems in the collection, divided into five books. Each book contains a prose preface which introduces and dedicates the book. The subjects of the poetry are varied and provide scholars with a wealth of information on Domitian's Rome and Statius' life.
==Composition==
The ''Silvae'' were probably composed by Statius between 89-96 CE. The first three books seem to have been published together after 93 CE (a year after the publication of the ''Thebaid''), and Book 4 was probably released in 95 CE. Book 5 is thought to have been released posthumously c. 96.〔Schakleton-Bailey, D. R. ''Statius Silvae'' (Cambridge, 2003) pg.5〕 Each book is datable by a comparison of the careers of the individual poems' addressees and references in other authors such as Martial. The title of the collection has caused some debate on the part of scholars, though it is assumed that it was taken from the lost ''Silvae'' of Lucan. In Latin, ''silva'' which in the nominative plural is ''Silvae'', can mean both "forest" and "material."〔Quintilian 10.3.17〕 ''Silva'' was used to describe the draft of a poets work which was composed impromptu in a moment of strong inspiration and which was then revised into a polished, metrical poem. This suggests that the ''Silvae'' are revised, impromptu pieces of occasional poetry which were composed in the space of a few days' time; Statius describes his method of composition in the preface to Book 1, saying ''mihi subito calore et quadam festinandi voluptate fluxerant cum singuli de sino meo prodiderint'' (() streamed from my pen in the heat of the moment, a sort of pleasurable haste, emerging from my bosom one by one).〔Bailey, trans. pg.27〕 He goes on to say in the preface that none of them took more than two days to compose.〔''Preface'' 1.14〕 Almost all the poems are dedicated individually to a patron and are accompanied by titles which are considered a later addition by editors.〔Bailey, pg.6〕
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