The Satisfactio is a short elegiac poem in which Dracontius asks the Vandal king for pardon, and no English translation of it exists. HOLLIS offers no edition in English: a search on 'Dracontius Satisfaction' returns nothing at all, while the general 'Dracontius' search returns the profane Orestes in English (Routledge, 2023), German commentaries and Italian editions, and no version of this poem (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Dracontius%20Satisfaction&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Dracontius&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 It is not among the passages translated in White's Early Christian Latin Poets, whose contents list gives only the De Laudibus Dei excerpt for Dracontius (https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/alma990085386220203941). The Latin text is printed in Patrologia Latina 60, whose elenchus lists 'Satisfactio ad Guntharium regem Wandalorum, dum esset in vinculis'.
A rare first-person document of a Latin poet under barbarian imprisonment, written in the same years as the De laudibus Dei and to the same king. Without a translation the whole episode of Vandal-era Latin literary culture is accessible to English readers only through the Vandal and African historical sources, never through the poet's own voice.
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| archive.org · PDF scan · public domain (Migne, Patrologia Latina, 1844-1865); Internet Archive scan |
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| Dracontius: De raptu Helenae : Einleitung, Edition, Übersetzung und Kommentar | Pohl, Katharina (Classical philologist). "Dracontius: De raptu Helenae : Einleitung, Edition, Übersetzung und Kommentar." Stuttgart : Franz Steiner Verlag, [2019]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99153780788203941 |
| Dracontius, Romul. 10 (Medea) : Einleitung, Text, Übersetzung und Kommentar | Dracontius, Blossius Aemilius, active 5th century. "Dracontius, Romul. 10 (Medea) : Einleitung, Text, Übersetzung und Kommentar." Heidelberg : Winter, 2006. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990099255290203941 |
| Der Hylas des Dracontius : Romulea 2 | Weber, Brigitte, 1946-. "Der Hylas des Dracontius : Romulea 2." Stuttgart : B.G. Teubner, 1995. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990054579770203941 |
| Dracontius' Orestes | Dracontius, Blossius Aemilius, active 5th century. "Dracontius' Orestes." Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99156592448603941 |
| Die "Carmina christiana" des Dracontius : kritischer Kommentar | Zwierlein, Otto. "Die "Carmina christiana" des Dracontius : kritischer Kommentar." Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2019]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99153823710703941 |