Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Author

Quintus Ennius(239–169 BCE)

Quintus Ennius is documented in Fuller’s manuscripts. No work is named in the surviving passages, all in Extracts from De Maistre, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “excerpted”.

Engagement
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Totals count documented engagements, once at the earliest witness. How we count →

Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this author is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

In Fuller’s words

“Le grave Ennius faisait chanter jadis sur le théatre de Rome ces maximes / J'ai dit qu'il est des dieux; je le dirai sans cesse: / Mais je le dis aussi, leur profonde sagesse / Ne se mêle jamais des choses d'ici-bas. / Si j'étais dans l'erreur, ne les verrions nous pas / Récompenser le juste, et punir le coupable? / Hélas! il n'en est rien.”
Extracts from De Maistre

When Fuller engaged with Quintus Ennius

No datable encounters with Ennius, Quintus have been catalogued yet.

This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.

Documentary evidence

Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.

Undated

Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.

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Extracts from De Maistre

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“Le grave Ennius faisait chanter jadis sur le théatre de Rome ces maximes / J'ai dit qu'il est des dieux; je le dirai sans cesse: / Mais je le dis aussi, leur profonde sagesse / Ne se mêle jamais des choses d'ici-bas.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Extracts from De Maistre." Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Inferred The specific Ennius work is not named but the verse parallels fragments from Ennius's tragedies preserved by Cicero (including De Divinatione).

Cicero preserves Ennius's dramatic fragments in works including De Divinatione; De Maistre notes 'Et Ciceron nous apprend, je ne sais plus où que ce morceau était couvert d'applaudissemens.' This is a secondary reference — Fuller transcribed De Maistre's quotation of Ennius