0 Hester Discussions of Latin aut and thei models show that 96 we advance Wi orography of Meteval Latin Literature " of Latin, present snd legible in th “In accounts of literary inluenee and imitation, any real appreciation of the Greck originals or subtens in parcular is Tost. Literary sthoarship of works of someone like Pasi for the frst centuries ofthe common ere, o be sure, preserved information of such literary relations even afr the origins or sees to them wer mally or actualy imposible So Serius begins his commentary on Aeneid with the words"Apollonivs woot the Argonafia dn i hid book presents Medea in lve; from this source hence this, whole book devvet™ Even Seria, othe Serius ofthe commentary docs ot engage in any of thet kid of comparative work one finds in the Nocts cae of ‘Aulus Gels, bat Servite's sense of Vergils Geck precursors, Thsokts Hesiod, Homer and Apolloioe, however atenated and impoverished in consi 10 tat of Vee’ contemporaries, wa firmer and tore auanced than what followed The extent t which information about the rsatonship between Vergi’s and oter Latin poctry and its Greck models, aleady radially simplified in Servius, suffers further degradation and simplification as ts disseminated is well exemplified by the soled cess Homer, which has a determinedly Latin perspective ‘omer made to books inthe Grek language, Osan as, in which Vert imitatd hin, in the fist 6 [se books ofthe ent ot how thin goes witout saying] inthe Oda (which it 8) & prem of prise, for ode is “praise”; ands the former shows Uiyetes in is book Osa to ave survived the danges of the so the laticr does Aeneas), [and] ithe ltr 6 [books the Mae iris a tale compared about the detrucion of Try. in which Versi agin itt hm inthe war of Tums and Enea. (9.25 Nov comes very interesting bit bout the before the sees writer an hie sides But because Ver! did aot exhaustively mn plnare} deste everything, a eran Latin Homer imitated the Greek Homer in ‘hat por and is his itetion to imitate the Grek o o deseibe the Taj ar. p26) ‘The 1070-bexametr poem which these sentences served 1 introduce was in fae a product of Roman schools, quite ikely the work of one Basbius