Lovecraft, H P - Ibid

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Ibid

by H. P. Lovecraft

"...as Ibid says in his famous Lives of the Poets."

- From a student theme.

The erroneous idea that Ibid is the author of the Lives is so frequently met with, even

among those pretending to a degree of culture, that it is worth correcting. It should be a

matter of general knowledge that Cf. is responsible for this work. Ibid's masterpiece, on

the other hand, was the famous Op. Cit. wherein all the significant undercurrents of

Graeco-Roman expression were crystallised once for all - and with admirable acuteness,

notwithstanding the surprisingly late date at which Ibid wrote. There is a false report -

very commonly reproduced in modern books prior to Von Schweinkopf's monumental

Geschichte der Ostrogothen in Italien - that Ibid was a Romanised Visigoth of Ataulf's

horde who settled in Placentia about 410 A. D. The contrary cannot be too strongly

emphasised; for Von Schweinkopf, and since his time Littlewit1 and Bêtenoir,2 have

shewn with irrefutable force that this strikingly isolated figure was a genuine Roman - or

at least as genuine a Roman as that degenerate and mongrelised age could produce - of

whom one might well say what Gibbon said of Boethius, "that he was the last whom Cato

or Tully could have acknowledged for their countryman." He was, like Boethius and

nearly all the eminent men of his age, of the great Anician family, and traced his

genealogy with much exactitude and self-satisfaction to all the heroes of the republic. His

full name - long and pompous according to the custom of an age which had lost the

trinomial simplicity of classic Roman nomenclature - is stated by Von Schweinkopf3 to

have been Caius Anicius Magnus Furius Camillus Aemilianus Cornelius Valerius

Pompeius Julius Ibidus; though Littlewit4 rejects Aemilianus and adds Claudius

Deciusfunianus; whilst Bêtenoir5 differs radically, giving the full name as Magnus Furius

Camillus Aurelius Antoninus Flavius Anicius Petronius Valentinianus Aegidus Ibidus.

The eminent critic and biographer was born in the year 486, shortly after the extinction of

the Roman rule in Gaul by Clovis. Rome and Ravenna are rivals for the honour of his

birth, though it is certain that he received his rhetorical and philosophical training in the

schools of Athens - the extent of whose suppression by Theodosius a century before is

grossly exaggerated by the superficial. In 512, under the benign rule of the Ostrogoth

Theodoric, we behold him as a teacher of rhetoric at Rome, and in 516 he held the

consulship together with Pompilius Numantius Bombastes Marcellinus Deodamnatus.

Upon the death of Theodoric in 526, Ibidus retired from public life to compose his

celebrated work (whose pure Ciceronian style is as remarkable a case of classic atavism

as is the verse of Claudius Claudianus, who flourished a century before Ibidus); but he

was later recalled to scenes of pomp to act as court rhetorician for Theodatus, nephew of

Theodoric.

Upon the usurpation of Vitiges, Ibidus fell into disgrace and was for a time imprisoned;

but the coming of the Byzantine-Roman army under Belisarius soon restored him to

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