Abstract
In Cic. Arch. 10, the rare adverb grauatim (“reluctantly”) hardly implies a personal appreciation by Cicero himself, as Gaffiot argues, and an underestimation of the performing artists, with whom Cicero compares Archias; the reading of the famous French Latinist is, on several points, debatable. The interpretation of the passage claims, in fact, the opposite sense, which would require a litotes. Given these readings, and in lieu of <haud> grauatim (proposed by Thomas in the light of Livy 1.2.3), the Ciceronian usus of Balb. 36, de orat. 1.208 and off. 2.66 and 3.59 suggests restoring <non> grauatim (“willingly”), as proposed by Pizzani. The omission of the negation had already occurred in the archetype of the speech, but its reinsertion has an independent clue: the presence of the gloss uel gratuito (“disinterestedly”). This reading, widespread throughout the tradition and already present in the archetype, is better justified if, originally, it arose as a gloss or a facilior alternative to the negated adverb, as off. 2.66 shows: non grauate et gratuito.
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