oa Le artes di Hor. epist. 2,1,32-33

The author discusses the 11. 32-33 of Horace’s Epistle to Augustus, which Shackleton Bailey, in his recent edition, considers interpolated. The thesis is proposed that Horace echoes in these 11. the allocution of Anchises in the Aeneid of Virgil, b. VI 11. 847-50: the three activities mentioned by Horace - painting, music and gymnastics - presuppose the same system of classification of the arts utilized by Virgil, who mentions sculpture, oratoty and astronomy (the system, of Aristotelian origin, in wich the arts are divided into the theoretical, the practical and the productive).