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- Bavi (Bavius) fou un poeta romà. Fou curator o va gaudir d'algun càrrec públic. Fou estigmatitzat per Virgili a la seva Bucolica. Va morir a Capadòcia el 35 aC. Junt amb Mevi el seu nom va quedar com proverbial dels poetes gelosos i malèvols per l'enemistat que van mostrar contra el geni dels seus més distingits contemporanis. Junt amb Mevi va escriure les Antibucolica, dues pastorals que volien ser una paròdia de l'obra de Virgili. (ca)
- Bavius and Maevius (or Mevius) were two poets in the age of Augustus Caesar, whose names became synonymous with bad verse and malicious criticism of superior writers. Both are named together in Virgil's Eclogues (3.90). Maevius is also the object of Horace's tenth Epode, which invites the gods to drown him as he embarks on a sea voyage. The name M(a)evius is attested of several historical individuals, but whether Virgil's Bavius and Maevius are real writers or literary inventions is unclear. Alexander Pope mentions Bavius in his 1729 Dunciad Variorum and explains, in a note, that he drew the reference from Virgil. Pope draws a parallel between these two critics and his own dunces by quoting John Dennis who thought it likely that Bavius "and Maevius had (even in Augustus's days) a very formidable Party at Rome, who thought them much superior to Virgil and Horace: For (saith he) I cannot believe they would have fix'd that eternal brand upon them, if they had not been coxcombs in more than ordinary credit" (Dunciad Variorum). Bavius and Maevius are also like the "dunces" in Pope's own Dunciad in that little is remembered of them except for their bad reputations. In the Dunciad, Book III, Pope has Bavius dip the transmigrating souls of poetasters in Lethe, making them doubly stupid before being born as hack writers. In his "An Essay on Criticism," Pope writes of Maevius: Some are bewilder'd in the Maze of Schools,And some made Coxcombs Nature meant but Fools.In search of Wit these lose their common Sense,And then turn Criticks in their own Defence.Each burns alike, who can, or cannot write,Or with a Rival's or a Eunuch's spite.All Fools have still an Itching to deride,And fain wou'd be upon the Laughing Side;If Maevius Scribble in Apollo's spight,There are, who judge still worse than he can write... Maevius also features in the Earl of Roscommon's "An Essay on Translated Verse" as a symbol of poetic failure: "Whoever vainly on his strength depends,Begins like Virgil, but like Maevius ends."(in J.E. Spingarn, ed., Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century, II, p.299) (en)
- Bavius, tout comme son collègue Maevius, était un critique célèbre à l’époque d’Auguste, qui dépréciait et attaquait les talents de poètes supérieurs. En particulier, l’un comme l’autre attaquèrent le travail de Virgile et d’Horace. Virgile répondit à Maevius dans son Églogue : « Qui Bauium non odit, amet tua carmina, Maeui, Atque idem iungat uulpes et mulgeat, hircos. » (1) Virgile affirme avec ironie qu'un amateur de la poésie de Bavius doit l'être aussi de celle de Maevius et qu'admirer l'un et l'autre n'est pas moins impossible que d'atteler des renards et de traire des boucs…Horace pour sa part parlera dans son Épode 10 du « olentem Mevium » (sous-entendu Maevius sent mauvais). Bavius et Maevius sont également cités dans l'œuvre d'Alexander Pope La Dunciade. (1). "Que celui qui ne hait point Bavius aime tes vers, ô Maevius! qu'il s'en aille atteler des renards et traire des boucs!" Virgile, Églogue III.
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- Bavi (Bavius) fou un poeta romà. Fou curator o va gaudir d'algun càrrec públic. Fou estigmatitzat per Virgili a la seva Bucolica. Va morir a Capadòcia el 35 aC. Junt amb Mevi el seu nom va quedar com proverbial dels poetes gelosos i malèvols per l'enemistat que van mostrar contra el geni dels seus més distingits contemporanis. Junt amb Mevi va escriure les Antibucolica, dues pastorals que volien ser una paròdia de l'obra de Virgili. (ca)
- Bavius and Maevius (or Mevius) were two poets in the age of Augustus Caesar, whose names became synonymous with bad verse and malicious criticism of superior writers. Both are named together in Virgil's Eclogues (3.90). Maevius is also the object of Horace's tenth Epode, which invites the gods to drown him as he embarks on a sea voyage. The name M(a)evius is attested of several historical individuals, but whether Virgil's Bavius and Maevius are real writers or literary inventions is unclear. (en)
- Bavius, tout comme son collègue Maevius, était un critique célèbre à l’époque d’Auguste, qui dépréciait et attaquait les talents de poètes supérieurs. En particulier, l’un comme l’autre attaquèrent le travail de Virgile et d’Horace. Virgile répondit à Maevius dans son Églogue : « Qui Bauium non odit, amet tua carmina, Maeui, Atque idem iungat uulpes et mulgeat, hircos. » (1) Bavius et Maevius sont également cités dans l'œuvre d'Alexander Pope La Dunciade.
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