Latrone e i Thyestea odia (Sen. Contr. I 1, 21 = Trag. inc. 212 Ribb.3)

Discussion of the tragic verse quoted by the declaimer Porcius Latro in the first Controversia of Seneca the Elder\u2019s declamatory collection (\u2018cur fugis fratrem? scit ipse\u2019). This anonymous fragment, deriving from an unidentified tragedy on the myth of Atreus and Thyestes, may belong to Varius Rufus\u2019 Thyestes. The analysis of the rhetorical function of the quotation in Latro\u2019s declamation means that we must preserve transmitted fugis against B\ufccheler\u2019s fugit